Dr. Brat received his MD and
PhD from the Mayo Medical and Graduate Schools and completed Residency in
Anatomic Pathology and a Fellowship in Neuropathology at Johns Hopkins
Hospital. He took his first position in the Department of Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine at Emory University in 1999 and was on faculty for 18
years. In 2017, he was named the Magerstadt Professor and Chair of Pathology at
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Dr. Brat is a practicing
surgical neuropathologist with special expertise in neoplastic diseases. He
also directs a basic and translational research lab that investigates
mechanisms of glioma progression, including the contributions of hypoxia,
genetics, tumor microenvironment and stem cells, using Drosophila and mice to
model the human disease, and computational approaches using large-scale
clinical and molecular databases, such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). He
has over 20 years of experience in brain tumor research and has written more
than 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts and reviews.