Brian Chiswell received a B.S. in biology from Francis Marion University and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of South Carolina.  Following graduate school, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale University School of Medicine in the department of pharmacology, then spent three years performing discovery stage research in the biotechnology industry.  Dr. Chiswell has published six papers in his field and worked on several 3D structures of protein molecules. He is now an assistant professor at Touro College in Manhattan and Brooklyn and has an undergraduate research lab where students study the molecular detail of cell signaling and transcription regulation in stem cells.