David Brown

Professor

MBBS (Hon)/PhD/FRACP/FRCPA

david.brown1@sydney.edu.au

Centre for Immunology and Allergy Research

Neuroinflammation Research Group

David Brown

Biography

Professor David Brown is a senior researcher with the Centre for Immunology and Allergy Research at the Westmead Institute. He is Senior Staff Specialist in Clinical Immunology at Westmead Hospital.

David’s clinical and research interests are in the field of inflammation. Clinically, David is interested in the consequences of inflammatory diseases on the CNS, vasculitides, and the treatment of connective tissue diseases. His research interests are in several areas including chronic inflammatory diseases such as atherosclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. He is also actively researching the role of immunity in cancer and neuroinflammatory diseases.

Research interests

Inflammation, Neuroscience, Immunology, Pathology

Adjunct roles

Clinical Professor Westmead Clinical School
Deputy Head Inflammation and Cytokine Biology Research Program
Conjoint Professor of Medicine St Vincent’s Centre for Applied Medical Research

Current grants

Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)/MRFF - PPHRI - 2021 Optimising the Clinical Use of Immunoglobulins 2022 antiCD20 treatment to rationalise the use of IV/SC-IG in CIDP
DVC Research/Sydney Research Excellence Initiative 2020 (SREI) 2018 Neuroimmunology and neuroInflammation: from Biomarker and Pathogenesis to patient diagnosis and improvement of clinical outcome
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Project Grants 2018 MIC-1/GDF15 in CNS disease

Affiliations

St Vincent’s Centre for Applied Medical Research, Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney

Professional Associations and Organisations

Awards and recognition

2013 NHMRC Career Development Fellowship Level 2
2011 Rick Hanson Difference Maker Award (Canada)
2009 NHMRC Career Development Award
2005 National MS Society (USA) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
2003 NHMRC Neil Hamilton Fairley Training Fellowship
1997 NHMRC Postgraduate Research Scholarship