Darron R. Brown, MD

Darron R. Brown, MD

Darron R. Brown, MD

Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Immunology

Indiana University School of Medicine

Darron Brown received his M.D., Internal Medicine training, and Infectious Diseases sub-specialty training at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.  He is currently Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Immunology at the Indiana University School of Medicine.  He is an attending physician at the Indiana University Hospital, Wishard Memorial Hospital, and the Roudebush Veterans Administration Hospital. 

Dr. Brown received the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Young Investigator Award in Virology from the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 1991, the Tony and Mary Hulman Health Achievement Award in Public Health, Indiana Public Health Foundation, 2006, and the Clinical Trial Exceptional Service Award for Development of the Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine (Gardasil) from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America in 2009.

Beginning in 1985, his laboratory has focused on the mechanisms of transmission of HPV infection, HPV-related oncogenesis, and prevention of HPV-related disease through development of vaccines.  He has performed extensive pre-clinical studies of vaccines and has conducted eleven human vaccine trials at all stages of development.  Dr. Brown has published approximately 100 research articles and book chapters on human papillomaviruses and vaccines.  He serves as a consultant to industry related to HPV and development of novel vaccines.

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