Chrysothemis Brown, PhD
Assistant Member, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (HOPP)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, USAChrysothemis Brown is an Assistant Professor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and an Assistant Attending physician in the department of Pediatrics. Dr. Brown did her undergraduate medical training at Oxford University and University College London, UK. She trained in Pediatrics in London and obtained her Ph.D in Immunology under the mentorship of Randy Noelle. Her work focused on the role of a dietary metabolite, vitamin A, in the regulation of T cell differentiation. For her post-doctoral research, Dr. Brown joined the lab of Alexander Rudensky to pursue studies in the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of immune cell fate. Her work led to the discovery of novel dendritic cell subsets and their transcriptional regulators, both in mice and humans. Alongside this, she pioneered single-cell transcriptomic studies of pediatric autoimmune disease and human cancer. Dr. Brown has received numerous awards including the NIH DP2 New Innovator Award, the Pew Trust Biomedical Scholars award, the V Foundation Pediatric Scholars Award, and the HHMI Gilliam Award for trainees and mentors.
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