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Michael Brown

Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery, Neuro-Oncology

Selected Grants


Epigenetic Programming of T Cells for Enhanced Cellular Immunotherapy

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2024 - 2029

Role of ATRX deficiency as a determinant of topoisomerase 1 inhibitor sensitivity in high grade gliomas

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by American Cancer Society, Inc. · 2025 - 2028

Biomarkers to Advance Clinical Phenotypes of Low Back Pain (BACk)

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases · 2023 - 2028

Resolving Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Recombinant Poliovirus Immunotherapy

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2023 - 2028

Social Health Factors Associated with the Transition from Acute to Chronic Low Back Pain

FellowshipCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2027

ATRXmutations,innate immune activation and therapeutic vunerabilityin malignant gliomas

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2022 - 2027

Beyond tumor staging: measuring immune status at initial diagnosis to detect and prevent melanoma recurrence

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2023 - 2026

Resolving targetable sex-differences in the immunobiology of gliomas and brain metastases.

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Phi Beta Psi · 2024 - 2025

Reviving cancer immune surveillance with CD4 T cell help

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2022 - 2025

Reviving cancer immune surveillance with CD4 T cell help

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2023

Is Low Tumor Mutational Burden Predictive of Response to Oncolytic Polio Virus Therapy in Recurrent Glioblastoma?

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2022

Cancer Immunotherapy Through Intratumoral Activation of Recall Responses

FellowshipPI-Fellow · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2021

Cancer Immunotherapy Through Intratumoral Activation of Recall Responses

FellowshipPI-Fellow · Awarded by National Cancer Center · 2017 - 2019

Oncolytic Virotherapy of Meningeal Cancer

ResearchResearch Assistant · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2015