Irena Levitan, PhD
Professor
Mentor, Angiogenesis & Regeneration
Department of Medcine
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COMRB 3097
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About
Dr. Levitan studies mechanisms that underlie endothelial dysfunction with focus on biophysical properties of endothelial membranes and sub-membrane cytoskeleton and shear stress mechano-transduction mechanisms. She is defining how lipids in plasma membranes, such as cholesterol and phosphoinositides, regulate ion channels. She addresses the role of membrane lipids in the generation of sphingosine-1-phosphate.