Birgit Leitinger
Researcher
Faculty of Medicine
National Heart Lung Institute
United Kingdom
Biography
Birgit Leitinger joined Imperial College London in 2005 as a Lecturer and has been a Senior Lecturer since October 2009. She obtained her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Basel, Switzerland. In 1996 she joined the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London as a postdoctoral fellow, working with Dr Nancy Hogg in cell adhesion. In 2001 she moved to UCL, Department of Medicine, where she started her independent research as a Senior Research Fellow. Her group's principal research interests are in cell adhesion, the interactions of cells with the extracellular matrix, and the mechanism of activation of cellular receptors. Since December 2010 she has been Education Co-ordinator for the BHF Centre of Research Excellence.
Research Interest
Biochemistry
Publications
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An B, Abbonante V, Xu H, et al., 2016, Recombinant Collagen Engineered to Bind to Discoidin Domain Receptor Functions as a Receptor Inhibitor, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol:291, ISSN:0021-9258, Pages:4343-4355
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Gao H, Chakraborty G, Zhang Z, et al., 2016, Multi-organ Site Metastatic Reactivation Mediated by Non-canonical Discoidin Domain Receptor 1 Signaling, Cell, Vol:166, ISSN:0092-8674, Pages:47-62
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Juskaite V, Corcoran DS, Leitinger B, et al., 2017, Collagen induces activation of DDR1 through lateral dimer association and phosphorylation between dimers, Elife, Vol:6, ISSN:2050-084X
