Dr Michael Brown (Medical Oncologist)
- Name
- Dr Michael Paul Brown
- Qualifications
- MBBS 1983
- FRACP 1992
- FRCPA 1992
- Occupation
- Medical Oncologist
- Immunologist (Pathology)
- Gender
- Male
- Medical Specialties
- Medical Oncology
- Immunology (Pathology)
Professor Michael Brown operates the Royal Adelaide Hospital Cancer Clinical Trials Unit and is a senior consultant medical oncologist in the Royal Adelaide Hospital Cancer Centre.
Dr Brown originally trained as a clinical and laboratory immunologist. After a period of laboratory and translational research in cancer immunotherapy at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, he joined the Royal Adelaide Hospital Cancer Centre as a consultant medical oncologist in 1998. Dr Brown’s Experimental Therapeutics Laboratory in the Hanson Institute on the RAH campus continues research in cancer immunotherapy with major projects including a poxvirus-based vaccine for prostate cancer and a novel antibody for the early detection of cancer response to chemotherapy. His clinical interests particularly include melanoma, lung cancer and prostate cancer.
- Hospital Affiliations
- Royal Adelaide Hospital
- Affiliated Organisations
- The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)
- Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA)
- Medical Oncology Group of Australia (MOGA)
- Affiliated Universities
- University of South Australia
- Medical Conditions
- Lung cancer
- Melanoma
- Prostate cancer
- Topics
- Cancer
