Brown’s Laboratories for Molecular Medicine at 70 Ship Street were on the itinerary Friday, November 13, for Rep. David Obey (D-WI), chairman of the the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, and several Rhode Island elected officials.

Obey came to Rhode Island at the invitation of Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) to see the state’s economic needs firsthand. He toured Providence’s Jewelry District, an area with an increasing Brown research and development presence that has the potential to boost the state's economy.

Full Story: U.S. House Appropriations chair tours Brown labs Source: Today at Brown, November 13th, 2009 Author: TAB Staff Added on November 17th, 2009 at 10:04 am, by Matt Mikula