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Diane Lipscombe, Ph.D. (born March 31, 1960) is a professor of neuroscience and the Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director of Brown University’s Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science. She served as the president of the Society for Neuroscience in 2019, the world’s largest organization for the study of the brain and nervous system. Lipscombe has been recognized for her teaching, mentoring and scholarship. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020, and she was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2013.