Doug Brown did his undergraduate degree at Sheffield University in Biochemistry and Genetics and then went onto complete a PhD at the University of Cambridge on HIV research. 

After his PhD he spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Medical Research Council’s National Institute for Medical Research working on malaria and stem cells, before taking up a post at the Multiple Sclerosis Society to manage the biomedical research programme. After five years at the MS Society he moved to the Alzheimer’s Society to lead the Research and Development programme.