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Name: Michael Lysaght Brown Affiliation: Professor of Medical Science in the Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology Department Company/School: Brown University Degrees Earned: BS and MS, Chemical Engineering, MIT Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales
Contact: Lysaght@brown.edu
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What positions did you hold before your current position (what other jobs led you to where you are now)? 1966 to 1979: Amicon
Corporation 1980: guest scientist
in the membrane laboratories at the
Max Planck Institute for Biophysics
in Frankfurt, Germany 1981-2: worked with
Dr. Hans Gurland at the University Hospital of Munich. 1984:
Baxter
International, as Director of Membrane Science and later as Vice
President for Renal Research. 1989-1994: VP and
chief technical executive at CytoTherapeutics 1996-1999:
RI Center for Cellular
Medicine, RICCM's first president from 1996-1999 and is
currently treasurer. What are your
favorite aspects of you job? What are the drawbacks? Brown Students. . .
they are fabulous and it is wonderful to be in a community in which they
comprise the majority. My "ability to contribute" is as
high in this job as in any I know of. Teaching is a great and
continuous learning process. Drawbacks: faculty
meetings. Universities pay poorly and are terribly managed What advice do you
have for someone who is thinking about pursuing a career in your area? I like the idea of
moving back and forth between academia and industry... because each
prepares you to do better in the other Integrity,
intelligence, communication skills, appreciation for diversity, ability
to set your own standards, communication skills, diligence
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