1986 Ph.D., Biological Anthropology, University of Toronto
1980 M.A., Biological Anthropology, University of Toronto
1978 B.A., Anthropology, Biology, Geology, California State University, Sonoma

Professor Bromage directs the Hard Tissue Research Unit (HTRU), which is a mineralized tissue preparation and imaging technology development laboratory of the Department of Biomaterials and Biomimetics, NYUCD. Mineralized tissue biology with emphasis on its translation to environmental and evolutionary studies are key to many of Bromage's HTRU pursuits, which include microanatomical correlates of bone biomechanics, skeletal adaptation to microgravity, enamel and bone growth rate variability in respect to environmental perturbations, and skeletal disease research. Recently, he has reported on a hitherto unrecognized long-period rhythm in bone microstructure that corresponds with a previously observed but enigmatic enamel formation rhythm in mammals, establishing a basis for understanding how chronobiology and organismal life history evolution are integrated.

Professor Bromage supplements laboratory research with African Late Pliocene paleontological fieldwork of significance to human evolutionary research, the surveys of which have recovered the oldest known representative of the human genus, Homo (rudolfensis), some 2.4 Ma, as well as its contemporary, Paranthropus boisei, from the shores of Lake Malawi. Fieldwork on Late Pleistocene pygmy elephant and pygmy hippopotamus localities in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus are alos ongoing, which provides a natural experiment of relevance to interpretations of modern human dental reduction.

The integration of graphic and heuristic elements in the digital photomicrography of bone and tooth microanatomy is important to Professor Bromage, who presents the work as abstract art; his exhibit is currently touring Europe. Images include a variety of subjects of relevance to his equally integrative research agenda, from images of gene knockout mice in novel cancer research, to human evolutionary studies including micro-anatomical images from the bones of "Lucy" (a representative of the earliest humans from Ethiopia, ca. 3.0 Ma).

National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, Ramon Areces Foundation, E. Blanquer Foundation, March Foundation

NYUCD Patent: Bromage, T.G. & Boyde, A., Perez-Ochoa Real, A. (2004) Portable Automated Confocal Microscope. US Pat. App. No.: 10/960,325, OIL Id. No.: BRO03-01PRO.