Patrick O. Brown
Patrick O'Reilly Brown (born September 23, 1954 in Washington, DC ) is an American biochemist .
Life
Brown earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1980 from Nicholas R. Cozzarelli with a thesis on topoisomerases. in biochemistry and an MD in 1982 as a medical degree. Until 1985 he worked in pediatrics at the Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Between 1985 and 1988 Brown was a postdoctoral fellow with J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus at the University of California, San Francisco . In 1987 he became a pediatrician. In 1988 Brown received a professorship (assistant professor) for pediatrics and biochemistry at Stanford University in Stanford , California , in 1995 he became an associate professor of biochemistry, and since 2000 he has been a full professor there.
Since 1988 Brown has also been doing research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute . Between 1994 and 1997 he was one of the editors of the journal Virology , and between 2002 and 2007 he was one of the publishers of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a renowned US-American journal.
Brown is married with three children.
Act
Brown is considered to be “an intellectual leader in the field of functional genomics . In particular, he developed reliable and widely available DNA microarray systems with which gene expression can be measured genome-wide . "
Together with Michael Eisen , Brown founded the Public Library of Science (PLoS) in 2000 , a non-commercial open access project for scientific publications that gave the idea of open access in the scientific field a significant boost. Brown serves on the board of directors of the PLoS.
Thomson Reuters has ranked Brown among the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) since 2010 .
After a sabbatical, Brown did not return to university and founded Impossible Foods in 2011 , which develops meat substitutes . In 2018 he was at the world economic summit in Davos.
Awards (selection)
- 1998 Gabbay Award
- 2000 NAS Award in Molecular Biology
- 2002 Takeda Award
- 2002 membership in the National Academy of Sciences
- 2005 Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics
Web links
- Pat Brown's Lab and Profile at Stanford University ; Retrieved March 10, 2012
- Patrick O. Brown, MD, Ph.D. and Research Abstract at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (hhmi.org); Retrieved March 10, 2012
- Literature by and about Patrick O. Brown in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Curriculum Vitae of Patrick O. Brown, Ph.D., MD ( Memento of July 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Stanford University , accessed on March 10, 2012 (PDF; 199 kB).
- ^ A b NAS Award in Molecular Biology. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved January 13, 2016 .
- ^ Board of Directors. Public Library of Science , accessed April 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Patrick O. Brown at Thomson Reuters ; Retrieved March 10, 2012
- ↑ Bettina Weiguny: Der Burger-Professor, in: FAS No. 4, January 28, 2018, p. 26.
- ↑ Takeda Award 2002 Achievement Facts Sheet (PDF; 1.1 MB) from the Takeda Foundation (takeda-foundation.jp); Retrieved March 10, 2012
- ^ E. Eichler: 2005 Curt Stern Award address. Introductory speech for Patrick O. Brown. In: American Journal of Human Genetics . Volume 79, Number 3, September 2006, pp. 427-428, ISSN 0002-9297 . doi: 10.1086 / 500330 . PMID 16909379 . PMC 1559547 (free full text).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brown, Patrick O. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brown, Patrick; Brown, Pat; Brown, Patrick O'Reilly |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |