Rate My Professor Mukesh Jain

Mukesh K. Jain, MD, is the eighth dean of medicine and biological sciences at Brown University, senior vice president for health affairs, Frank L. Day Professor of Biology, and senior associate provost for life sciences. He joined Brown in spring 2022. A physician-scientist, Jain is internationally recognized for studies establishing a central role for Krüppel-like factors, a family of DNA transcription factors, in cardiovascular biology, innate immunity, and metabolism.

Prior to Brown, Jain served as chief academic officer at University Hospitals health system in Cleveland, vice dean for medical sciences at Case Western Reserve University, and Harrington Endowed Scientific Director of the Harrington Discovery Institute. He earned a BS in biochemistry from the University at Buffalo in 1987 and an MD from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine in 1991. Jain completed residency training in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and fellowships in research and cardiovascular disease at Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He subsequently served on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. Jain’s contributions have been recognized by election to the National Academy of Medicine, the Association of American Physicians, and the Association of University Cardiologists; he is a past president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. In 2017, he co-founded the Physician-Scientist Support Foundation.