Dr. Brandon received his B.S. in Biology from Northwestern University in 1969, and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1974. His postdoctoral research was carried out in the Laboratory of Functional Neuroanatomy at the National Institutes of Health, and in the Department of Cell Biology at Baylor Medical School. From 1980 to 1983, he was an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anatomy and Ophthalmology at the Oregon Health Sciences University; he joined the faculty of the Rosalind Franklin University/The Chicago Medical School in 1984.