Eric Brown
Professor, Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences

Dr. Eric Brown is a Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences and a member of the M.G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has received a number of other awards including the Canadian Society of Microbiologists Murray Award for career achievement.
Dr. Brown is a former department Chair and was also the founding Director of the Biomedical Discovery and Commercialization program at McMaster. He has served a variety of national and international associations, including a term as President of the Canadian Society of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology. Dr. Brown is known for a large body of top-flight research in antibiotics and is an innovator in diverse areas of drug discovery, using tools of chemical and systems biology to probe the complexity that underlies disease. He has been active in commercializing his laboratory’s research and is especially curious about technology and discoveries with promise in creating breakthrough therapies.

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