Leslie Leinwand

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    Leslie Leinwand has won the American Heart Association's 2017 Distinguished Scientist award for outstanding contributions to the field of heart healthThe usage of fats from python hearts on mammals and the cardiovascular differences between females
  • Leinwand's research opens the door to the possibility of personalized treatment for heart disease.
    «Ƶ biologist Leslie Leinwand has been selected as a member of the 2014 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which honors the leading “thinkers and doers” from each generation, including scientists, scholars
  • Leslie Leinwand is looking for new ways to treat pediatric heart disease.
    The motor protein, myosin, has fascinated BioFrontiers Chief Scientific Officer Leslie Leinwand for more than 25 years. This protein is responsible for making muscles contract in the body, but Leinwand, a professor in molecular, cellular and
  • A cardiomyocyte imaged by the BioFrontiers Advanced Imaging Facility.
    BioFrontiers scientist tackles a childhood disease of the heartBioFrontiers Chief Scientific Officer Leslie Leinwand, has been studying the motor protein, myosin, for 25 years. This important protein is responsible for making muscles contract,
  • Leslie Leinwand, MCDB Professor and BioFrontiers Intitute Chief Scientific Officer
    CU professor co-founds new company to develop genetic heart disease treatmentA new biomedical company involving the «Ƶ, Stanford University and the Harvard Medical School has been launched with $38 million in financing
  • Telomeres sit at the ends of chromosomes to protect their genetic data. Credit: Jane Ades, NHGRI
    In a new paper released today in Nature, BioFrontiers Institute scientists at the University of Colorado in «Ƶ, Tom Cech and Leslie Leinwand, detailed a new target for anti-cancer drug development that is sitting at the ends of our
  • Hubert Yin is one of three BioFrontiers scientists who received state grants to enable commercialization.
    BioFrontiers faculty receive commercialization grants from the State of ColoradoTen CU research projects were recently selected to receive grants through Colorado’s Bioscience Discovery Evaluation Grant Program (BDEG-Co). The State of Colorado
  • Ryan Doptis handles one of the pythons in Leslie Leinwand's lab. Doptis, an MCD Biology major, graduated in December. (Image: Cliff Grassmick)
    Biofrontiers lab experience opens a career path for seniorAfter two years of working in a «Ƶ laboratory that recently gained international media attention for its work with snakes and heart disease, graduating senior Ryan
  • Biofrontiers scientist, Leslie Leinwand holds a Burmese python in her lab. Image by: Thomas Cooper
    On Science Friday: Leslie Leinwand discusses the Python Project On December 9, Biofrontiers Institute's Chief Scientific Officer Leslie Leinwand shared some scaly tales of her research with Burmese pythons on NPR's Science Friday. During the
  • Biofrontiers scientist, Leslie Leinwand holds a Burmese python in her lab. Image by: Thomas Cooper
    Pythons provide clues to human heart health A surprising new «Ƶ study shows that huge amounts of fatty acids circulating in the bloodstreams of feeding pythons promote healthy heart growth, results that may have
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