About

Joseph S. Brown

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

(2024) PhRMA Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Drug Discovery, Chemistry (Brad Pentelute), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(2019) NSF Graduate Fellow, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Christopher Alabi), Cornell University

Accelerate Faculty Start Up Funding Award — Acceleration Consortium (Canada First Research Excellence Fund, CFREF), 2025–2030 (PI)
"In silico Directed Evolution for Biodiscovery of Cardiovascular Peptide Therapeutics" — Acceleration Consortium (CFREF), 2025–2028 (Co-PI with PI Keith Pardee)
"Parallel Chemical Synthesis Platform Powered by Reaction GFlowNets" — Acceleration Consortium (CFREF), 2026–2027 (Co-PI with PI Michał Koziarski)
"Automated Discovery of Therapeutic Peptides using an AI-Guided Self-Driving Laboratory Platform" — Canada Foundation for Innovation / Ontario Research Fund (CFI/ORF) John R. Evans Leaders Fund, with Institutional Operating Fund supplement, 2026–2031 (PI)
"From Sparse Data to Design: A Self-Driven Framework for Accelerating Peptide Design" — Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant with Launch Supplement, 2026–2031 (PI)
Start-up Funding — University of Toronto (PI)

Co–authored Spotlight Presentation, AI for Accelerated Material Design, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (2024)
Young Investigator Best Oral Presentation Award in Session, Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (2023)
Outstanding Oral Presentation, Gordon Research Conference on Chemistry and Biology of Peptides (2022)
Elizabeth A. Schram Young Investigator Oral Presentation (2nd), 27th American Peptide Symposium (2022)
MIT Chemistry Mentorship Spotlight Award (2021)
Editor’s Collection at Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry (2020)
Best Paper of the Year Award, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2019)

Justin Wong (Summer 2024) — Undergraduate Research, Acceleration Consortium; now OD Student, University of Waterloo
Rubiana Farin (Summer 2024) — Undergraduate Research, Acceleration Consortium; now MASc Candidate, Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto

Patrick Hauck (Sept 2019–Feb 2020) — MSc Thesis, MIT Chemistry; now Senior Scientist, Novartis
Sarah Antilla^† (Jan 2020–Mar 2024) — Graduate Research, MIT Chemistry; now Scientist I, Novo Nordisk A/S
Amanda Cowfer^† (Jan 2020–Mar 2024) — Graduate Research, MIT Chemistry; now Scientist, Snapdragon Chemistry
Azin Saebi^† (Jan 2020–Mar 2024) — Graduate Research, MIT Chemistry; now Associate Director, Strategy and Growth, Eli Lilly
Michael Lee^† (Oct 2020–Mar 2024) — Graduate Research, MIT Chemistry; now Senior Advisor, Protomer Technologies
Stephanie Hanna (Fall 2020) — Graduate School Application and Manuscript, MIT Chemistry; now PhD Student, Baker Group, University of Washington
Ridings Bald (Summer 2021) — Undergraduate Research, MIT Chemistry; now Undergraduate, Physics and CS, MIT
Lia Lozano Salazar (Fall 2021) — Graduate School Application, MIT Chemistry; now PhD Candidate, McKinnie Lab, UC Santa Cruz
Roman Misteli^† (Jan–Aug 2022) — Co-Supervised MSc Thesis, MIT / ETH Zurich; now PhD Student, Bernardes Lab, University of Cambridge

Andrew Cosachov (Jan 2014–Jan 2016) — Undergraduate Research, Cornell CBE '14; now Executive Director, JP Morgan Chase & Co
Grace He^† (Jun 2015–Jun 2017) — Undergraduate Research, Cornell CBE '17; now Operations and Delivery Senior Manager, COTA
Akash Vaidya^† (Jun 2015–Sept 2018) — Undergraduate Research, Cornell CBE '18; now PhD Candidate, Solomon Group, University of Delaware
Vincent Rigoglioso^† (Sept 2016–Sept 2018) — Undergraduate Research, Cornell CBE '18; now Faculty Educator, Germantown, PA
Joseph Hassler^† (Jun 2016–Sept 2018) — Undergraduate Research, Cornell CBE '18; now PhD, Hackel Group, University of Minnesota
Nana Antwi (Jun–Dec 2018) — Undergraduate Research, Cornell CBE '20; now Data Scientist, Synopsys Inc
Manisha Kunala (Jun–Dec 2018) — Undergraduate Research, Cornell CBE '20; now PhD Candidate, UMass Chan Medical School
Chris Mulvaney (Jun–Dec 2018) — Undergraduate Research, Cornell CBE '20; now Process Engineer, Automation & Control Specialists

† Co-authored publication with this mentee.