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Eric J. Brown, MD
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Eric J. Brown, MD Dr. Brown was born in New York City. He obtained his A.B. from Harvard College and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He was an intern and resident in medicine at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He remained at the National Institute of Health until 1985 when he moved to Washington University School of Medicine. He stayed at Washington University until 1999 and when he left he was Professor of Medicine and Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology and Co-Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases. He is presently Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Head, Program in Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense, University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Brown has two primary research interests. One is on the function of cells of the immune system, particularly those involved in recognition and destruction of pathogens. He studies the molecular mechanisms by which a family of adhesion molecules called integrins regulates pathogen destruction. His other research interest is tuberculosis which is a classic infection of cells called macrophages, which normally destroy bacteria.
Division of Infectious Diseases
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