Erika T. Brown

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Pathology & Anatomy
Morehouse School of Medicine
United States of America

Professor Pathology
Biography

POSTGRADUATE University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Postdoctoral Research: Senior Research Associate - Oncology, Cancer Biology and Radiation Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Postdoctoral: Postdoctoral Fellow - Oncology, Cancer Biology and Radiation Biology, GRADUATE: University of Alabama at Birmingham Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Genetics, Spelman College Degree: Bachelor of Science in Biology/Biochemistry

Research Intrest

Breast cancer genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2), Triple negative breast cancer, DNA damage and repair pathways, Community-based Breast Cancer health disparity studies

List of Publications
Elhammer AP, Poorman RA, Brown E, Maggiora LL, Hoogerheide JG, Kezdy FJ. The specificity of UDP-GalNAc: polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase as inferred from a database of in vivo substrates and from the in vitro glycosylation of proteins and peptides. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 1993 May 15;268(14):10029-38.
Brown ET, Holt JT. Rad51 overexpression rescues radiation resistance in BRCA2‐defective cancer cells. Molecular carcinogenesis. 2009 Feb 1;48(2):105-9.
Holt JT, Toole WP, Patel VR, Hwang H, Brown ET. Restoration of CAPAN-1 cells with functional BRCA2 provides insight into the DNA repair activity of individuals who are heterozygous for BRCA2 mutations. Cancer genetics and cytogenetics. 2008 Oct 15;186(2):85-94.