Eric Brown

I joined Genentech at the end of 2006 to start a group focused on microbial pathogenesis. Previously, I had been involved in starting interdisciplinary programs directed toward understanding the molecular basis of infectious diseases at two academic institutions, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of California, San Francisco. Genentech offered the opportunity to perform outstanding basic research and also to potentially translate these findings rapidly to improvements in patient care, a promise much harder to achieve in an academic setting. Since 2013, I have had overall responsibility for the immunology as well as the infectious disease programs.