Dr. Joel Brown, PhD.

Dr. Brown is an evolutionary ecologist with over 300 peer-reviewed publications and a leader in mathematical modeling of evolutionary and population dynamics.

He is a world leader in applying principles of ecology and evolution to contain and cure cancer while enhancing the length and quality of the patients’ lives.

He has applied evolutionary game theory to define, understand, model and develop improved treatment strategies for cancer. These models see cancer as the evolution of a new, single-celled species. The tumor becomes an ecosystem within which the cancer cells exhibit both ecological and evolutionary dynamics as they compete for space and resources, form associations, and further speciate to fill the niches that emerge from heterogeneity within the tumor.

Dr. Brown is a Senior Member of the Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida.

Dr. Brown is also a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Chicago.