Primary Job Title Sr. VP Drug Development Primary Organization 
Azevan Pharmaceuticals
Gender Male
Michael Brownstein, Ph.D., M.D., Sr. VP Drug Development, earned his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and completed his graduate training at the University of Chicago, where he earned an M.D. and Ph.D. in pharmacology. He received his clinical training at the Boston Children’s Hospital and then moved to the National Institutes of Health
to work with Julius Axelrod, recipient of a Nobel Prize in 1970 for his studies in the field of neuropharmacology. Dr. Brownstein remained at NIH after completing his fellowship, where he served as Chief of the Laboratory of Genetics of the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Human Genome Research Institute. For two years, he was the Scientific Director of the NIMH Intramural Research Program. While at the NIMH/NHGRI, he directed the Brain Molecular Anatomy Project. Simultaneously, he contributed to the Mammalian Gene Collection, a trans-Institutional effort to clone and sequence cDNAs corresponding to all human, mouse, and rat transcripts. Subsequently he directed the functional genomics program at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, MD for three years. Currently he is a Scientist Emeritus at the NIH. He has worked in the fields of neurobiology, neuroendocrinology, biochemical pharmacology, genetics, and genomics; has published more than 300 papers in peer reviewed journals; and has served on major editorial boards and continues to serve on a number of scientific advisory boards. Dr. Brownstein also co-founded several successful bio-pharmaceutical companies.
