Massachusetts General Hospital

Overview

The MGH Program in Membrane Biology (PMB) within the Division of Nephrology brings together a diverse group of 40 faculty, fellows, technical, and administrative staff who collaborate in research related to the functional importance of cell membranes, membrane proteins, vesicle trafficking and signal transduction in physiologically important processes in epithelial and non-epithelial cells.

The PMB is also affiliated with the MGH Center for Systems Biology. More information about this center can be found here.

PMB Microscopy Core Facility

The PMB houses an extensive Microscopy Core Facility that is an MGH-registered Core Facility, available on a fee-for-service basis. All aspects of microscopy from basic wide-field and fluorescence imaging, confocal imaging, live cell imaging and TIRF (total internal reflection microscopy), and electron microscopy are available. The official Core website provides more details regarding equipment, cost and contact information. Please click here for more information.

Research Personnel

The PMB labs are located in the Simches Research Center, on the 8th Floor, adjacent to the MGH main campus. The faculty investigators within the PMB are:

• Dennis Brown, PhD - Professor of Medicine and Director of the PMB Program
• Sylvie Breton, PhD - Associate Professor of Medicine
• Herbert Lin, MD, PhD - Associate Professor of Medicine
• Vladimir Marshansky, PhD - Assistant Professor of Medicine
• Jodie Lynn Babitt, MD - Instructor in Medicine
• Richard Bouley, PhD - Instructor in Medicine
• Nicolas Dasilva, PhD - Instructor in Medicine
• Alfred Van Hoek, PhD - Instructor in Medicine
• Hua Lu, MD, PhD - Instructor in Medicine
• Teodor Paunescu, PhD - Instructor in Medicine
• Winnie Shum, PhD - Instructor in Medicine
• Yin Xia, PhD - Instructor in Medicine

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Program in Membrane Biology

Phone: 617-726-5665
Fax: 617-643-3182