Dr. Brass' group studies viral-host interactions and the host's intrinsic immune system. Dr. Brass obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. After a short-track residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston Mass., Dr. Brass completed his clinical training in Gastroenterology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Genetics Dept. of the Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Brass grew up in Newton Mass and graduated from Newton South High School.