Milton Brown

Dr. Brown is a co-founder of the Company and has served as their Chief Scientific Officer for Chemistry and as a member of their board of directors since they were formed in December 2012. Dr. Brown was a founder in 2004 of Rivanna Pharmaceuticals, a Virginia-based biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of novel small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of neurological diseases and cancer. Since 2012, Dr. Brown has served as Director of the Drug Discovery Center at Georgetown University Medical School and since 2010, he has been the principal investigator of the NIH/NCI funded Chemical Diversity Center. He brings to Shuttle 15 years of experience in drug discovery with over 80 publications and eight issued patents, including discovery of novel HDAC inhibitors and has two drugs currently in clinical trials. He has served on government committees including the NIH Experimental Therapeutics Study Section, the NIH Drug Discovery and Molecular Pharmacology Study Section and was a scientific counselor to the U.S. Secretary of Health. Dr. Brown holds a Ph.D. in synthetic chemistry from University of Alabama, and an MD from the University of Virginia. He is uniquely qualified to direct Shuttle’s drug discovery program and serve as their director.