Dennis Brown

Who is Dennis Brown?

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, and is the Associate Director of the MGH Center for Systems Biology. He is a member of the MGH Executive Committee on Research, the central body for research governance at MGH.

He was born in Grimsby, England where he attended Wintringham Grammar School, and continued his education at the University of East Anglia where he received a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences with first class honors, and then 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 350 articles and reviews in peer reviewed journals.