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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), and is the 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.
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 honours, 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.
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 American Physiological Society.