Patrick O. Brown
Patrick O'Reilly Brown ( born September 23, 1954 in Washington, DC) is an American biochemist.
Life
Brown graduated from the University of Chicago in 1976 a BS in Chemistry, 1980 Nicholas R. Cozzarelli with a thesis on topoisomerases a Ph.D. in biochemistry and in 1982 M.D. as graduation from medical school. Until 1985 he worked in pediatrics at The Children 's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Between 1985 and 1988, Brown was a postdoctoral associate with J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1987 he became a specialist in pediatrics. 1988 Brown received a professorship ( Assistant Professor ) of Pediatrics and Biochemistry at Stanford University in Stanford, California, 1995, he was associate professor of biochemistry, he is a full professor there since 2000.
Since 1988, Brown conducts research in addition to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Between 1994 and 1997 he was one of the editors of the journal Virology, between 2002 and 2007 to those of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a prestigious U.S. journal.
Brown is married and has three children.
Work
Brown is considered the " intellectual leader in the field of functional genomics. In particular, he developed a reliable and widely available DNA microarray systems with which genome -wide gene expression can be measured. "
Together with Michael Brown iron founded in 2000, Public Library of Science ( PLoS ), a non-commercial open access project for scientific publications, which gave a boost to open access idea in the scientific area. Brown is part of the Board of Directors of PLoS.
Thomson Reuters is one of Brown since 2010 the favorites for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ).