Stefan McDonough

Stefan was most recently at Pfizer World R&D & Medical for 5 years as Executive Director, Genetics. Stefan also held positions at Amgen Inc. from Senior Scientist to Scientific Director in the Department of Neuroscience and as Executive Director and head of Amgen’s Genome Analysis Unit. Previously Stefan was Assistant Scientist (tenure-track) at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole MA. He currently is an Adjunct Professor at Brown University, where he also serves on the advisory board of the Carney Institute for Brain Science.

Stefan completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Maryland Medical School (Department of Biochemistry/calcium imaging) and at Harvard Medical School (Department of Neurobiology/neuropharmacology) and received an MS and a Ph.D. in Biology (Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience) from Caltech. He holds an ScB in Engineering Physics from Brown.