In a pair of studies of Rhode Island’s opioid overdose epidemic, Brown University researchers show that while heroin users appear desperate to avoid fentanyl, it’s killing more of them every year.
Dr. Simin Liu is among the first scientists funded by the American Heart Association to work on its new Cardiovascular Genome-Phenome initiative. He will now have access to three major resources for a deep investigation of gene-diet interactions in cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes across different ethnic groups.