Dennis Brown (academic)

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Dennis Brown
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of East Anglia
Scientific career
InstitutionsHarvard Medical School
ThesisControl of Metabolic Processes in Amphibian Organ Culture (1975)
Doctoral advisorMichael Balls
Websitehttps://csb.mgh.harvard.edu/brown

Dennis Brown is a renal physiologist. He is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, director of the Program in Membrane Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH),[1] and Associate Director of the MGH Center for Systems Biology. He is a member of the MGH Executive Committee on Research (ECOR), the central body for research governance at MGH.[2]

Early life and education[edit]

Brown was born in Grimsby, England and attended Wintringham Grammar School. He earned an undergraduate degree in biological sciences and PhD degree from the University of East Anglia. His dissertation supervisor was Michael Balls.

Career[edit]

Brown was awarded the Carl W. Gottschalk Distinguished Lectureship in 1999,[3] and the Hugh Davson award for Cell Biology in 2011,[4] both from the American Physiological Society. In 2017-2018, Brown served as the 90th President, and is the current Chief Scientific Officer, of the American Physiological Society.[5][6][7]

From 2002-2008, Brown served as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Physiology. Cell Physiology. From 2009-2017, he served as editor-in-chief of Physiological Reviews.[8][9][10] He was elected to the Academy of Europe in 2017.[11]

Brown was awarded the A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring award from Harvard University in 2005 and the Harvard Medical School Dean’s Award for the Advancement of Women in Science in 2012.[12][13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Massachusetts General Hospital
  2. ^ "ECOR - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA". Archived from the original on 4 July 2013.
  3. ^ "Carl W. Gottschalk Distinguished Lectureship". Renal Awards. American Physiological Society. 1999. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  4. ^ "Hugh Davson Distinguished Lectureship". Section Awards—Cell & Molecular Physiology. American Physiological Society. 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  5. ^ "Dennis Brown, PhD, Becomes 90th President of the American Physiological Society". newswise. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Physiologists Predict Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Winners". Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  7. ^ "Dennis Brown, PhD Chief Science Officer". Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  8. ^ "American Journal of Physiology: Cell Physiology". Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  9. ^ "Physiological Reviews". Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  10. ^ "APS Staff Directory". Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  11. ^ "Member information". Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  12. ^ "A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award Recipients". Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  13. ^ "Brown Recognized For Championing Women Faculty". 12 July 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2022.

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