Marshall Montrose
Marshall (Chip) Montrose became Editor-in-Chief of the American
Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology in July
2003. Born in Bethesda Maryland (under the shadow of the NIH from an early
age), he received his B.S. in Mathematics and Zoology from the University of
Maryland in 1977. After working as a technician at the NIH for two years, he
decided to pursue a Ph.D. in Biophysics under the watchful eye of George
Kimmich at the University of Rochester. Graduating in 1984, he went to
Switzerland for joyful postdoctoral work with Heini Murer. In 1988, Mark
Donowitz bravely recruited him to join the GI Division in the Department of
Medicine at Johns Hopkins University as Assistant Professor, despite the
fact that his postdoctoral work was in renal epithelial cells. After ten
years at Johns Hopkins, he took a position as Professor of Physiology at
Indiana University from 1998-2004. In 2004, he took his current position as
Professor and Chair of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at the University
of Cincinnati.
His research has been dominated by developing an understanding about the
membrane physiology of gastrointestinal epithelial cells, with a passion for
understanding acid/base transport regulation. He recently realized that he
has published research work on every segment of the GI tract from the mouth
to colon. His recent application of advanced microscopy methods to living
native tissue in vivo and in vitro have allowed unprecedented opportunities
for exploring parts of cells and tissues that have historically defied deep
analysis. Most notably, explorations of pH microdomains surrounding
epithelial cells have both raised and answered questions about the
regulation of acid/base transporters in the intimate spaces near membranes.
He was an Associate Editor for AJP-GI and has been on the editorial board
for AJP-Cell Physiology for a number of years. He currently serves on
the GCMB study section at the NIH, is a Councilor for both the Intestinal
Disorders Section and the Esophageal, Gastric and Duodenal Section of the
American Gastroenterological Association. He recently served as councilor
for the Cell and Molecular Physiology Section of the American Physiological
Society.
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