Dr. Leavis is Senior Scientist at Boston Biomedical Research Institute (BBRI), Watertown, MA, where for over 35 years he has become an expert in protein characterization and in the design, synthesis, purification and characterization of peptides for research. Dr. Leavis received his Ph.D. from Tufts University in Boston where he studied the physico-chemical properties of fibrinogen. As a post-doctoral fellow at BBRI he carried out spectroscopic studies on the structure and interactions of muscle proteins and received fellowships from the Muscular Dystrophy Assocation and NATO. His later work was supported by an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association and from grants from NIH. Dr.Leavis runs the protein peptide core facility at BBRI and is an Associate Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, Sackler Scool of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and the Gerald J. and Dorothy R.Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts. In his current studies on leptin, he has synthesized several peptides that bind to the leptin receptor and block leptin signaling, and is currently studying the ability of these leptin antagonist peptides to inhibit growth and adhesion of breast and endometrial cancer cells.
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