About Me
Kristy A. Brown, Ph.D., earned her doctorate in reproduction from the Université de Montréal (Canada) in 2006. She then joined Prince Henry’s Institute (Australia) as an FQRNT Postdoctoral Fellow (2006-2008) and later became a Terry Fox Foundation Fellow through the National Cancer Institute of Canada (2008-2011). Following the receipt of an NHMRC Career Development Award and an NHMRC project grant, she was appointed co-Head of the Metabolism and Cancer Laboratory at Prince Henry’s Institute. She transitioned to the position of Research Group Head at the Hudson Institute for Medical Research in 2014, where she received the Mavis Robertson Award from the National Breast Cancer Foundation. In 2017, she was recruited to the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine (USA) and in 2020 was promoted to Associate Professor of Biochemistry in Medicine. In 2022, she was awarded the Emilie Lippmann and Janice Jacobs McCarthy Research Scholar Award in Breast Cancer. Dr. Brown was recruited in 2023 to the University of Kansas Medical Center as Associate Professor of Metabolism and Cancer and Co-Program Leader for the Cancer Prevention and Control Program of the KU Cancer Center. Additionally, she is a member of the KU Diabetes Institute and serves as the Director of Workforce Equity for the Kansas Center for Metabolism and Obesity Research (KC-MORE) COBRE. She has published 81 peer-reviewed articles and two books. She also holds two patents and has been an invited speaker at more than 90 conferences and events, as well as numerous public outreach efforts. She is ranked among the top 0.007% of published authors for ‘aromatase’, 0.11% for ‘obesity’, and 0.13% for ‘breast cancer’ (Expertscape).