Dennis Brown#
| Membership Number: | 4519 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://csb.mgh.harvard.edu/brown |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Director, MGH Office for Research Career Development (ORCD)
- 2007 - present Associate Director MGH Center for Systems Biology
- 2002 - present Prof. of Medicine, Harvard Med. Sch., Massachusetts General Hospital
- 1997 - present Director, MGH Program in Membrane Biology
- 1988 - 2002 Associate Professor of Pathology/Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
- 1986 - 1988 Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
- 1982 - 1985 Chargé de Recherche - University of Geneva Medical School
- 1975 - 1981 Maitre Assistant, University of Geneva Medical School
- 1972 - 1975 PhD candidate, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Renal physiology
- Renal cell biology
- Vesicle trafficking
- Epithelial cell polarity
- Aquaporin biology
- Vacuolar ATPase biology
- Epithelial fluid and electrolyte transport
- Urinary concentrating mechanisms
- Renal acidification mechanisms
- High resolution microscopy imaging
Honours and Awards
- 2016 President Elect of the American Physiological Society
- 2015 Fellow of the American Physiological Society (FAPS)
- 2013 Honorary Doctorate of Science, Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich, UK for contributions to cell biology and physiology
- 2013 Robert Pitts Lecture in Nephrology – Intl. Union Physiol. Sci., Birmingham, UK
- 2012 Harvard Medical School Dean's Leadership Award for the Advancement of Women Faculty
- 2011 - 2014 Elected to National Council of the American Physiological Society by APS membership
- 2011 - 2013 Chair, NIH Molecular Biology of the Kidney and Development (MBKD) Study Section
- 2011 Hugh Davson Distinguished Lecturer Award for Cell Biology – EB Meeting, Washington 2011
- 2009 - 2017 Editor-in-Chief, Physiological Reviews,the APS' flagship journal (impact factor 30) (term ends Dec. 31, 2017)
- 2009 - 2011 Member of NIH Cell and Molecular Biology of the Kidney (CMBK) study section
- 2009 Martin Research Prize for best basic science paper of the year from MGH (Shum et al., Cell 135: 1008-1117)
- 2009 Daniel L. Kline Lecturer in Systems Biology, Univ. Cincinnati Systems Biology Retreat.
- 2008 Robert Schrier Endowed Lecture, American Society of Nephrology Meeting, Philadelphia
- 2008 - 2018 NIH MERIT (R37) grant: a 10 year award given to a small percentage of investigators for exceptional achievement
- 2008 Suk-Ki Hong Memorial Lecturer – State Univ. of New York, Buffalo.
- 2006 A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award – Harvard Medical School
- 2005 Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham visiting lecturer – Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
- 1999 Carl Gottschalk Distinguished Lecturer Award for Renal Physiology - FASEB meeting, Washington
- 1992 Plenary lecturer (Epithelial water channels) at 25th silver anniversary Am. Soc. Nephrol. meeting, Baltimore
- 1987 - 1992 Established Investigator of the American Heart Association
