Pronouns: he/ him / his
PhD Program: Environment (2015)
Faculty Advisor: Richard Di Giulio, PhD
Dissertation: Later Life Consequences of Sublethal Embryonic Exposure to Complex PAH Mixtures in the Atlantic Killifish Fundulus heteroclitus
Updates 8/2025
Employment: Principal Investigator/Program Manager NIEHS/NTP, CSS
Employment Sector: Industry
Dr. Daniel Brown joined the Duke Toxicology Program in October 2022. He currently performs toxicological risk assessments and provides safety reviews of art materials for consumers in the US, Canada, and the EU. Dr. Brown had previously worked as an Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology in Western Carolina’s Biology Department. In that role, he explored heart development following exposure to binary and complex toxicants using the zebrafish model. Dr. Brown’s past research has focused on assessing underlying mechanisms leading to abnormalities following early-stage toxicant exposures, better characterizing cardiac development, and determining changes in behavior and performance following embryonic toxicant exposure in fish (Zebrafish and Atlantic Killifish).
Prior to beginning his faculty appointment at Western Carolina, Daniel was an Instructor of Biology at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics from 2017-2020. Daniel completed his postdoctoral training in cardiovascular development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While at UNC, he gained valuable teaching and pedagogical training through the SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. In the Spring of 2017, Daniel served as a Visiting Assistant Biology Professor in the Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences at North Carolina Central University teaching Introductory Biology: Molecules and Cells. Prior to attending UNC, Daniel completed his doctoral work at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment in the Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program. Daniel’s teaching and research interests lie at the intersection between anthropogenic contamination and environmental health with an emphasis on Cardiovascular Development and Toxicity.
