Brenton received his PhD from Dartmouth Medical School in the laboratory of Dr. Mark Israel. His graduate work focused on understanding alterations in neuro-developmental pathways that contribute to brain tumorigenesis. In the Beroukhim Lab, he identified novel cancer vulnerabilities that result from copy-number alterations and elucidated tumor cell populations by single cell RNA-sequencing. Brent is now a research scientist within the Cancer Program at the Broad Institute, where he is working with the Dependency Map project.

Fun fact: Brenton was part of the first graduating class of the Dr. Seuss School of Medicine.

Favorite quote: “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” –Niels Bohr