Faculty

Stuart Brown
Ph.D. Molecular Biology, Cornell University
NYU School of Medicine-Associate Professor of Cellular Biology
Course: Genetic Epidemiology

Stuart Brown, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cell Biology at NYU School of Medicine, where he has been on the faculty since 1997. He serves as Director of the Research Computing Resource, the core bioinformatics facility for the School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D in Molecular Biology from Cornell University in 1992 and held Postdoctoral fellowships and the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, and the USDA ARS in Griffin, Georgia. Dr. Brown’s research involves computational approaches to genomic data analysis, including high throughput sequencing of parasite and pathogen genomes, and analysis of microarray data. Dr. Brown is the author of several books including Bioinformatics: A Biologists Guide to Biocomputing and the Internet (2000) and Essentials of Medical Genomics (2003). Dr. Brown is Course Director for the Bioinformatics course offered by the The Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at New York University School of Medicine.