He graduated from University College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry, Zoology and Physiology, followed by Special Physiology, and from Street Bartholomew"s Hospital Medical College with a Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacology.
Prior to joining University College London he was Wellcome Professor of Pharmacology at the School of Pharmacy. He has also held visiting professorships in the Universities of Chicago, Iowa and Texas, and the University of Kanazawa (Japan), and has been a Fogarty Scholar-in-Residence at the National Institutes of Health in the United States. He is currently living in London.
His publications are widespread and well known, having had his work published in prominent journals such as the British Journal of Pharmacology and the Journal of Neuroscience, the latter subject being one in which he is an important figure.
He is past editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Pharmacology, and has served on the editorial boards of many other journals, including the Journal of Physiology, Neuron, Trends in Neurosciences and Proceedings of the Royal Society.
Royal Society; Academia Europaea]
Brown is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (elected 1990), an Honorary Fellow and sometime Council Member of the British Pharmacological Society, an Elected Fellow of the Institute of Biology (1980) and an Elected Fellow of Academia Europaea (1996).
