Brent Stockwell is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, Professor of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences, and Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at CUIMC. He has been on the Columbia faculty for 20 years, where he has taught biochemistry, including in virtual reality and augmented reality. In a series of papers from 2003-2012, he discovered a previously unrecognized form of cell death that he termed ferroptosis, which is now the subject of more than 13,000 publications. He has received numerous awards, including being elected to the US National Academy of Medicine, the Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award, and the Great Teacher of Columbia College Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates. He has been in the top one percent of highly cited researchers the last five years and was named as one of the 50 most influential life science individuals in New York. He has published >190 scientific articles and received more than 50 research grants for over $40 million. 

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