Dennis Brown is a renal physiologist. He is Professor of Medicine at

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, director of the Program in Membrane Biology at the

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(MGH), 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.

Early life and education

Brown was born in

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and attended Wintringham Grammar School. He earned an undergraduate degree in biological sciences and PhD degree from the

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. His dissertation supervisor was

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Career

In 1999, Brown was awarded the Carl W. Gottschalk Distinguished Lectureship in 1999, and the Hugh Davson award for Cell Biology in 2011, both from the

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. In 2017-2018, Brown served as the 90th President, and is the current Chief Scientific Officer, of the

. From 2002-2008, Brown served as

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of the '' American Journal of Physiology—Cell Physiology''. From 2009-2017, he served as editor-in-chief of ''

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''. He was elected to the

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in 2017. Brown was awarded the A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring award from

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in 2005 and the

Dean’s Award for the Advancement of Women in Science in 2012.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Dennis Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of the University of East Anglia Harvard Medical School faculty Physiology Renal physiology Medical journal editors