Dr. Michael Browning
President of PhosphoSolutions, LLC

Michael Browning, Ph.D. was born in Dallas, Texas and attended the University of Texas where he received a bachelor’s degree in English Literature.  He then spent 5 years trying to become a filmmaker in Los Angeles and he sold shoes to pay his bills. He became very interested in how the brain processed visual images and abandoned filmmaking to start graduate school in Neurobiology in 1974.  He received a Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the University of California at Irvine in 1979.  He subsequently did a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale and Rockefeller University from 1980 to 1986 with Dr. Paul Greengard who won the Nobel Prize in 2002.  Dr. Browning has a wife and two boys aged 11 and 14.

Dr. Browning is President of PhosphoSolutions, LLC.  PhosphoSolutions makes and sells phosphoprotein antibodies, the nanoscale research tools used in the study of phosphoproteins.  These antibodies greatly accelerate drug discovery in cancer and in neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease.  Dr. Browning is internationally known for his studies of protein phosphorylation and memory.  In addition to his research and development work with PhosphoSolutions, Dr. Browning is also a professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center where he studies the biological bases of memory and how these processes are altered by aging and also by alcohol.