Biography

Beverly A. Brown, Ph.D.

Beverly A. Brown, Ph.D., joined CIMIT/Partners Healthcare in 2004 as the special projects officer. She now serves as chief development officer. CIMIT, the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, is a non-profit consortium of Boston-area academic medical centers and universities which supports and facilitates innovation and development of medical devices and re-engineered clinical systems. She serves on the four-person leadership team that oversees operations, develops tactics, and provides strategic guidance for CIMIT.

Previously, she served as vice president of business development at Linden Bioscience, based in Woburn, Mass., providing invaluable product and corporate start-up experience.

She has extensive experience in medical products technology and market assessment as well as marketing and product development expertise in the areas of neuroscience, gene expression and drug discovery. She has authored 31 publications, two book chapters, and has one issued patent on drug discovery technology.

She began her career in research and development and held various research positions, at DuPont and Baxter International, in diagnostic and therapeutic research, as well as in drug discovery assay development. She made the transition into development as director of business development at PerkinElmer.

Dr. Brown's academic background includes a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Neurochemistry. She holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

At Boston University, she serves as an Overseer and on the Development Committee for Marsh Chapel. She also serves on the advisory boards for WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) and the WISE@Warren residence floor. She has been the honorary president of the BU Women’s Guild since 2005.

She and her husband, Dr. Robert A. Brown, president of Boston University, live in Brookline, Mass. They have two grown sons.