Biography
Dr. Brown obtained his undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences (Genetics) from the University of Cambridge, U.K., and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Edinburgh, U.K. He first pursued postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Professor Pierre Chambon in Strasbourg, France, where he studied estrogen-regulated gene transcription. From 1984-87 he was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Harold Varmus at the University of California, San Francisco, where he worked on the newly discovered oncogene Wnt1 and demonstrated its potential for cell transformation. Dr. Brown joined the Cornell faculty in 1987 and was named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences in 1989. From 2004-2007, he served as Scientific Director of Strang Cancer Prevention Center's Cancer Research Laboratories located at Rockefeller University. Dr. Brown's laboratory investigates Wnt signaling mechanisms, and their diverse functions in tissue biology and cancer.
