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DrBirgit Leitinger

Associate Professor in Matrix Receptor Signalling

National Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine

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  • Associate Professor in Matrix Receptor Signalling
    National Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
  • 020 7594 1591 (Work)
  • Room 523, Dr Victor Phillip Dahdaleh (VPD) Building, Hammersmith Campus, United Kingdom

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    25-26 Pioneer Award
    5 May 2026 - 2 Jun 2026
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    BBSRC responsive mode grant funding panel, 25RM3, committee D
    29 Jan 2026 - 19 Mar 2026
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    BBSRC responsive mode grant funding panel, 25RM2, committee D
    11 Aug 2025 - 24 Sep 2025
  • GUEST LECTURE
    Collagen Sensing: how discoidin domain receptors transmit a signal across the plasma membrane and control kinase activity
    8 Apr 2025
    CNRS, Lyon
  • GUEST LECTURE
    Understanding the molecular details of discoidin domain receptor activation via lateral clustering
    11 Dec 2024
    Pharmacology 24 conference, Pharmacology of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases: from Dimerisation to Signalling symposium
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    BBSRC responsive mode grant funding panel, 24RM2, committee D
    12 Aug 2024 - 25 Sep 2024
  • EDITORIAL BOARD
    Matrix Biology
    1 Aug 2024
    Editorial Board member
  • EDITORIAL BOARD
    Matrix Biology Plus
    1 Aug 2024
    Editorial board member
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    2023-24 Strategic longer and larger (sLoLa) grants committee, full stage assessment
    2 May 2024 - 24 Jun 2024
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    BBSRC responsive mode panel 24RM1, committee D
    2 May 2024 - 19 Jun 2024
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    BBSRC responsive mode panel 23RM2, committee D
    7 Aug 2023 - 26 Sep 2023
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    23RM1 BBSRC responsive mode, committee D
    4 May 2023 - 26 Jun 2023
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    BBSRC pool of experts
    2 Jan 2023 - 31 Mar 2026
  • GUEST LECTURE
    Collagen sensing: how discoidin domain receptors transmit a signal across the membrane and control kinase activity
    18 Oct 2022
    Universität Bayreuth
  • EDITORIAL BOARD
    Receptors
    2 May 2022
    Editorial board member
  • EDITORIAL BOARD
    Cells
    1 May 2021
    Editorial board member
  • GUEST LECTURE
    Collagen sensing: how discoidin domain receptors transmit a signal across the membrane and control kinase activity
    29 Jun 2020
    Galapagos NV
  • GUEST LECTURE
    Discoidin domain receptors: multitaskers for physiological and pathological processes (opens in a new tab)⁠
    22 May 2019
    1st DDRs meeting
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  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    College of Experts (opens in a new tab)⁠
    15 Jul 2016 - 14 Jul 2020
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  • EDITORIAL BOARD
    Molecular and Structural Endocrinology
    15 Jul 2016
    Review Editor
  • GUEST LECTURE
    Receptor tyrosine kinase activation: spotlight on collagen receptors in health and disease. Seminar Series,
    24 Jun 2016
    Seminar Series, Cardiovascular and Cell Sciences Research Institute, Division, St George's University,
  • GUEST LECTURE
    Collagen sensing: how do discoidin domain receptors transmit a signal across the membrane?
    7 Oct 2015
    London Matrix Biology group Autumn Symposium, ‘Basement membranes: roles in Development and Disease’
  • GUEST LECTURE
    How do discoidin domain receptors transmit a signal across the membrane?
    16 Jun 2015
    Institute of Experimental Musculosceletal Medicine (IEMM), Westfälische Wilhelms University
  • GUEST LECTURE
    How do discoidin domain receptors transmit a signal across the membrane?
    12 May 2015
    Cardiovascular Division, King’s College London
  • GUEST LECTURE
    How do discoidin domain receptors transmit a signal across the membrane?
    29 Jan 2015
    Roche Innovation Center, Basel, Switzerland