Eric Brown

Biography

Dr. Brown is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences and member of the M.G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University. Dr. Brown has been the recipient of a number of awards including the Canadian Society of Microbiologists Murray Award for career achievement, the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences Merck Frosst Prize for new investigators and a Canada Research Chair in Microbial Chemical Biology. Dr. Brown is a former department Chair and has served on advisory boards for a variety of companies as well as national and international associations. Dr. Brown’s research interest is the complex biology that underlies bacterial survival strategies and aim to understand and subvert these systems in drug resistant superbugs. The Brown lab research group is using tools of chemical biology and molecular genetics to probe poorly understood aspects of bacterial physiology and has made remarkable advances by developing avant-garde chemical screening assays that have yielded exciting new probes of bacterial cell systems. The overriding goal of these studies is to contribute fresh directions for new antibacterial therapeutics and their work has yielded breakthrough lead compounds for the next generation of antibiotics.

Research Interest

Biochemistry