Myles A. Brown

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Myles A. Brown is an American oncologist who studies connections between hormones, breast cancer, and prostate cancer, [1] particularly focusing on the role of estrogen receptors. [2] He is Emil Frei III Professor of Medicine in the Harvard Medical School, [3] and director of the Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics in the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. [1]

Brown was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016, [1] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017, [4] and the National Academy of Medicine in 2020. [5]

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  2. Azar, Beth (July 2018), "Profile of Myles Brown", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (32): 8054–8056, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1810395115 , PMC   6094136 , PMID   30038006
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