Peter Brown received his BA, MS, and Ph.D. in various areas of cell and molecular biology (Middlebury College, San Diego State, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the University of Tennessee). After a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford studying mechanisms of gene amplification, Peter shifted focus to mammalian cell process development at BioResponse, Chiron, Aviron, and Avigen. After consulting for many years in scale-up and optimization of mammalian cell cultures for the production of biologics, he commercialized a series of multi-lamellar cell settlers through his company Biotechnology Solutions.