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Brent R. Stockwell, Ph.D.
 
Brent R. Stockwell grew up in Bay Terrace, a suburban neighborhood in New York City. He received his A.B. in chemistry and economics from Cornell University in 1994, graduating summa cum laude. He performed his doctoral studies under the supervision of Stuart L. Schreiber at Harvard University and received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1999. He is currently an Associate Professor at Columbia University with joint appointments in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Chemistry; he is also a member of the Motor Neuron Center and the Cancer Center at Columbia Medical School.

Dr. Stockwell's research involves the use of chemical tools to define novel cell death pathways in order to better understand and treat cancer and neurodegeneration. Prior to joining the faculty of Columbia University in 2004, he was selected as an independent Fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, where he directed his own laboratory, developing new tools to enable the exploration of biology with small molecules.

Dr. Stockwell is a member of the editorial board of Chemistry & Biology. He was awarded a Burroughs Wellcome Career Award at the Scientific Interface in 2002, and a Beckman Young Investigator Award in 2007. He was named the 2000 and 2001 Fink Fellows at the Whitehead Institute. He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellow (1995-1999) and a National Science Foundation Research Fellow (1994-1995). He received Harvard University Certificates of Distinction in Teaching in 1995 and 1999. While at Cornell University, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa (1994) and he received a number of awards for excellence in chemistry (1992, 1993, 1994). Dr. Stockwell is the author of 45 publications, 26 patent applications and 8 issued US patents.

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