Patrick O. Brown
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Pat Brown (Photo: Jane Gitschier)
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| Born | Patrick O'Reilly Brown September 23, 1954 Washington, DC, US |
| Other names | Pat |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Biochemistry |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Thesis | Studies on DNA Topoisomerases (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Nicholas Cozzarelli |
| Known for |
Impossible Foods, DNA microarrays Public Library of Science |
| Notable awards |
NAS Award in Molecular Biology (2000) Takeda award (2002) Curt Stern Award (2005) |
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Website brownlab www |
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Patrick "Pat" O'Reilly Brown, (born 1954) is chief executive and founder of Impossible Foods Inc. and professor emeritus in the department of biochemistry at Stanford University. Brown is co-founder of the Public Library of Science, inventor of the DNA microarray, and a former investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Brown received each of his degrees from the University of Chicago, including his B.S. and M.D. His Ph.D., granted in 1980 while under the guidance of Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, involved the study of DNA topoisomerases.
Following his PhD, Brown did his postdoctoral research with J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus at University of California, San Francisco. His research uses DNA microarrays to study the gene expression patterns associated with especially cancer. He became an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 1988. In 2001, Brown helped lead the Public Library of Science (PLOS) initiative to make published scientific research open access and freely available to researchers in the scientific community. He and Michael Eisen of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory advocated for designing alternative systems to fund for scientific publishing. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2002, identifying him as one of the top 2000 scientists in the nation. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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