Dr. Beverly Brown is director of development, industry, at the Boston University School of Public Health.
Also at Boston University, Dr. Brown is on the Dean’s Advisory Board and a member of the Development Committee for Marsh Chapel. She serves on the advisory boards for WISE (Women in Science & Engineering), GWISE, and the WISE@Warren residence program. She chairs the Advisory Board for the BioScience Academy and is on the Board of BEST (Broadening Experience in Scientific Training). Dr. Brown is the honorary president of the BU Women’s Guild and travels extensively to support the University’s development efforts across the United States as well as Asia, India, and the Middle East.
In addition to her work at BU, she serves on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Medical Simulation, on the Board of Directors for The Boston Club, and on the Board of Directors of the Home for Little Wanderers.
She and her husband, Dr. Robert A. Brown, president of Boston University, live in Brookline, Massachusetts. They have two grown sons.
Prior to coming to BU, Dr. Brown had extensive experience in research and development of in vitro and in vivo medical diagnostics. She was chief development officer for CIMIT, the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, a nonprofit consortium of Boston-area academic medical centers and universities that supports and facilitates innovation and development of medical devices and re-engineered clinical systems. Prior to that, she served as vice president of business development at Linden Bioscience, based in Woburn, Massachusetts, and held various research positions at DuPont and Baxter International in diagnostic and therapeutic research as well as in drug discovery assay development.
Dr. Brown’s academic background includes a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Neurochemistry. She holds a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.