2026 Leslie A. Leinwand: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

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Molecular Biology	108	402	367	230	205	375	34356

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
2017 - Distinguished Scientist Award, American Heart Association
2016 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Leslie A. Leinwand is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their primary subfields of study include cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, infectious diseases, biomedical engineering, and physiology.

The main topics covered in Leinwand's work involve:

Cardiomyopathy and myosin studies
Cardiovascular effects of exercise
Muscle physiology and disorders
SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
Cardiac fibrosis and remodeling
RNA research and splicing
Physiological and biochemical adaptations

Leslie A. Leinwand's recent notable publications include:

"Just 2% of SARS-CoV-2−positive individuals carry 90% of the virus circulating in communities" (2021) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Nuclear mechanosensing drives chromatin remodelling in persistently activated fibroblasts" (2021) published in Nature Biomedical Engineering
"Regression of cardiac hypertrophy in health and disease: mechanisms and therapeutic potential" (2023) published in Nature Reviews Cardiology
"Targeting the sarcomere in inherited cardiomyopathies" (2022) published in Nature Reviews Cardiology
"Associations Between Female Sex, Sarcomere Variants, and Clinical Outcomes in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy" (2020) published in Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine

Key frequent co-authors working with Leinwand include:

Thomas G. Martin
Christopher D. Ozeroff
Claudia Crocini
Roy Parker
Dakota R. Hunt

Leinwand's research is regularly published in venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Biophysical Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Circulation Research
Nature Reviews Cardiology

Their contributions to science have been recognized through awards including:

Distinguished Scientist Award, American Heart Association (2017)
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2016)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2005)

Best Publications

Right Ventricular Function and Failure Report of a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group on Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Right Heart Failure

Norbert F. Voelkel;Robert A. Quaife;Leslie A. Leinwand;Robyn J. Barst

1424
Citations
Gene for von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis is in the pericentromeric region of chromosome 17

D. Barker;E. Wright;K. Nguyen;L. Cannon

901
Citations
Cells: a laboratory manual

David L. Spector;Robert D. Goldman;Leslie A. Leinwand

874
Citations
A PGC-1α isoform induced by resistance training regulates skeletal muscle hypertrophy.

Jorge L. Ruas;James P. White;Rajesh Rajesh R Rao;Sandra Kleiner

745
Citations
Using mini-prep plasmid DNA for sequencing double stranded templates with Sequenase.

R Kraft;J Tardiff;K S Krauter;L A Leinwand

719
Citations
Ubiquitous, interspersed repeated sequences in mammalian genomes

Warren R. Jelinek;Thomas P. Toomey;Leslie Leinwand;Craig H. Duncan

708
Citations
A small-molecule inhibitor of sarcomere contractility suppresses hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in mice

Eric M. Green;Hiroko Wakimoto;Robert L. Anderson;Marc J. Evanchik

631
Citations
Evidence that opioids may have toll-like receptor 4 and MD-2 effects

Mark R. Hutchinson;Yingning Zhang;Mitesh Shridhar;John H. Evans

593
Citations
Type IIx myosin heavy chain transcripts are expressed in type IIb fibers of human skeletal muscle

V. Smerdu;I. Karsch-Mizrachi;M. Campione;L. Leinwand

560
Citations
Myosin heavy chain gene expression in human heart failure.

Koichi Nakao;Wayne Minobe;Robert Roden;Michael R. Bristow

560
Citations
Hepatocyte proliferation in vitro: its dependence on the use of serum-free hormonally defined medium and substrata of extracellular matrix.

Rafael Enat;Douglas M. Jefferson;Nelson Ruiz-Opazo;Zenaida Gatmaitan

520
Citations
A Role for Proinflammatory Cytokines and Fractalkine in Analgesia, Tolerance, and Subsequent Pain Facilitation Induced by Chronic Intrathecal Morphine

Ian N. Johnston;Erin D. Milligan;Julie Wieseler-Frank;Matthew G. Frank

495
Citations
THE MAMMALIAN MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN GENE FAMILY

Allison Weiss;Leslie A. Leinwand

480
Citations
Developmental myosins: expression patterns and functional significance

Stefano Schiaffino;Alberto C. Rossi;Vika Smerdu;Leslie A. Leinwand

451
Citations
Cardiac and skeletal muscle adaptations to voluntary wheel running in the mouse

David L. Allen;Brooke C. Harrison;Alexander Maass;Matthew L. Bell

447
Citations
Cellular mechanisms of cardiomyopathy

Pamela A. Harvey;Leslie A. Leinwand

436
Citations
Adenovirus Type 5 and 7 Capsid Chimera: Fiber Replacement Alters Receptor Tropism without Affecting Primary Immune Neutralization Epitopes

J Gall;A Kass-Eisler;L Leinwand;E Falck-Pedersen

387
Citations
The TEL patch of telomere protein TPP1 mediates telomerase recruitment and processivity

Jayakrishnan Nandakumar;Jayakrishnan Nandakumar;Caitlin F. Bell;Caitlin F. Bell;Caitlin F. Bell;Ina Weidenfeld;Arthur J. Zaug;Arthur J. Zaug

381
Citations
Intrathecal interleukin-10 gene therapy attenuates paclitaxel-induced mechanical allodynia and proinflammatory cytokine expression in dorsal root ganglia in rats.

Annemarie Ledeboer;Brian M. Jekich;Evan M. Sloane;John H. Mahoney

351
Citations
Corrigenda for vol. Cardiac and skeletal muscle adaptations to voluntary wheel running in the mouse (vol 90, pg 1900, 2001)

DL Allan;BC Harrison;A Maass;ML Bell

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristi S. Anseth University of Colorado Boulder

Linda R. Watkins University of Colorado Boulder

Erin D. Milligan University of New Mexico

James A. Spudich Stanford University

Michael A. Geeves University of Kent

Michael R. Bristow University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Steven F. Maier University of Colorado Boulder

Elizabeth M. McNally Northwestern University

Frank H. Ruddle Yale University

Stephen M. Factor Albert Einstein College of Medicine

External Links

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