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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Beth Levine was affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focused on areas within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine, contributing extensively to the subfields of Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Physiology, and Immunology.

The main topics of Levine's scientific work included:

  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease

Levine published numerous research papers, frequently contributing to prominent journals. The most frequent publication venues were:

  • Nature Communications
  • Nature
  • Autophagy
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Several notable papers from Levine's recent work include:

  • "Autophagy in Human Diseases," 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Tumor-suppressor function of Beclin 1 in breast cancer cells requires E-cadherin," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Sorting nexin 5 mediates virus-induced autophagy and immunity," 2020, Nature
  • "TLR9 and beclin 1 crosstalk regulates muscle AMPK activation in exercise," 2020, Nature
  • "Autophagy stimulation reduces ocular hypertension in a murine glaucoma model via autophagic degradation of mutant myocilin," 2021, JCI Insight

Collaborations were significant to Levine's work, with frequent co-authors including Zhongju Zou, Guanghua Xiao, Yuting Zhao, Zaiming Tang, and Qing Zhong.

Throughout their career, Levine was recognized with several awards:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Autophagy in the Pathogenesis of Disease

    Beth Levine;Guido Kroemer;Guido Kroemer;Guido Kroemer

  • Autophagy fights disease through cellular self-digestion

    Noboru Mizushima;Beth Levine;Ana Maria Cuervo;Daniel J. Klionsky

  • Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Ilio Vitale;Stuart A. Aaronson;John M. Abrams

  • Methods in Mammalian Autophagy Research

    Noboru Mizushima;Tamotsu Yoshimori;Beth Levine

  • Development by Self-Digestion: Molecular Mechanisms and Biological Functions of Autophagy

    Beth Levine;Daniel J Klionsky

  • Bcl-2 antiapoptotic proteins inhibit Beclin 1-dependent autophagy.

    Sophie Pattingre;Sophie Pattingre;Amina Tassa;Xueping Qu;Xueping Qu;Rita Garuti

  • Induction of autophagy and inhibition of tumorigenesis by beclin 1.

    Xiao Huan Liang;Saadiya Jackson;Matthew Seaman;Kristy Brown

  • Autophagy and the Integrated Stress Response

    Guido Kroemer;Guillermo Mariño;Guillermo Mariño;Beth Levine

  • Autophagy in immunity and inflammation

    Beth Levine;Noboru Mizushima;Herbert W. Virgin

  • Elevated Circulating Levels of Tumor Necrosis Factor in Severe Chronic Heart Failure

    Beth Levine;Jill Kalman;Lloyd Mayer;Howard M. Fillit

  • Autophagy in human health and disease.

    Augustine M K Choi;Stefan W. Ryter;Beth Levine

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Hagai Abeliovich;Patrizia Agostinis;Devendra K. Agrawal

  • Promotion of tumorigenesis by heterozygous disruption of the beclin 1 autophagy gene

    Xueping Qu;Jie Yu;Govind Bhagat;Norihiko Furuya

  • Biological Functions of Autophagy Genes: A Disease Perspective

    Beth Levine;Guido Kroemer

  • Autophagy in cell death: an innocent convict?

    Beth Levine;Junying Yuan

  • Autophagic cell death: the story of a misnomer

    Guido Kroemer;Beth Levine

  • Distinct Roles of Autophagy in the Heart During Ischemia and Reperfusion: Roles of AMP-Activated Protein Kinase and Beclin 1 in Mediating Autophagy

    Yutaka Matsui;Hiromitsu Takagi;Xueping Qu;Maha Abdellatif

Frequent Co-Authors

Guido Kroemer
Guido Kroemer Université Paris Cité
Junichi Sadoshima
Junichi Sadoshima Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ramnik J. Xavier
Ramnik J. Xavier Broad Institute
Noboru Mizushima
Noboru Mizushima University of Tokyo
Daniel J. Klionsky
Daniel J. Klionsky University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lorenzo Galluzzi
Lorenzo Galluzzi Cornell University
David C. Rubinsztein
David C. Rubinsztein University of Cambridge
Vojo Deretic
Vojo Deretic University of New Mexico
Francesco Cecconi
Francesco Cecconi Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

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