Dennis Brown (academic)

Dennis Brown (academic)
Dennis Brown

Nationality British
Institutions Harvard Medical School
Alma mater University of East Anglia
Doctoral advisor Michael Balls

Dennis Brown is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the director of the Program in Membrane Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH),[1] and is the Associate Director of the MGH Center for Systems Biology. He is a member of the MGH Executive Committee on Research, and the chair of the MGH Research Council.

He was born in Grimsby, England and educated at the University of East Anglia where he took a bachelor's degree, and stayed on to complete his PhD under Michael Balls, studying the hormonal control of glycogen metabolism in long-term amphibian organ culture. He then spent 10 years working under the direction of Prof. Lelio Orci at the University of Geneva Medical School in Switzerland, where he eventually became an Assistant Professor.

Dennis Brown is a cell biologist/physiologist who specializes in the use of state-of-the art imaging and cell biological techniques to follow and dissect physiologically-relevant membrane protein trafficking events in epithelial and non-epithelial cells. He is an internationally recognized authority on membrane protein trafficking in epithelial cells, with special focus on water channels aquaporins and vacuolar proton pumping ATPase function in the kidney and, more recently, in the male reproductive tract. He has published over 330 articles in peer reviewed journals.

Brown is currently the editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal Physiological Reviews, which has a citation index of 35, ranking 5th among all scientific journals. He previously served as the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology from 2002–2008 and an associate editor of American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology. He was a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the Journal of Membrane Biology, the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, and the Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry.

Brown has received numerous awards including the A. Clifford Barger "Excellence in Mentoring" Award from Harvard University in 2005 and the Carl Gottschalk Award from the American Physiological Society in 1999. He received an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association, and was the invited plenary lecturer on aquaporins at the Silver Anniversary meeting of the American Society of Nephrology. He has given several endowed lectures, including the Robert Schrier endowed lecture (on aquaporin trafficking) at the 2008 meeting of the American Society of Nephrology, the Suk-Ki Hong Endowed Lectureship in Physiology at the University of Buffalo in May 2008, the Dunaway Burnham Endowed Lectureship at Dartmouth College in 2005, and the Daniel L. Kline Lecture at the 2009 Univ. Cincinnati annual Systems Biology retreat.

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