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Dr. Galit Lahav		Assistant Professor in Systems Biology	HMS	BBS
Dr. Lois Lampson	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Surgery	BWH	NSCI		Immunobiology of the nervous system and its tumors.
Dr. Carole Landisman		Assistant Professor of Neurology	CH	NSCI		The Study of Mammalian Gap Junctions, Inhibitory Neuronal Networks, and Corticothalamic Processing.
Dr. Peter Lansbury	Ph.D.	Professor of Neurology	BWH	BBS		The biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease
Dr. Andrew Lassar	Ph.D.	Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology	HMS	BBS		Molecular mechanisms that regulate cell fate determination and differentiation in vertebrates.
Dr. Phillipe Leboulch	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine	BWH	BBS		Vectorology of chromosomal integration and gene therapy models.
Dr. David Lee		Assistant Professor of Medicine	BWH	IMM		Mechanisms of Autoimmunity in Inflammatory Arthritis
Dr. Jeannie Lee	M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Genetics	MGH	BBS		Molecular genetics of X-chromosome inactivation, a whole chromosome silencing phenomen on that enables female (XX) and male (XY) cells to achieve equal X-chromosome transcription in spite of their differing X-chromosome constitution.
Dr. Tun-Hou Lee	B.PH., D.Sc.	Professor of Virology	HSPH	VIR		Humoral response to retroviral infections in humans; identification of coding sequences of human retroviruses and their gene products. Role of human and related primate retroviruses; encoded gene products in disease pathogenesis. (VIR)
Dr. Wayne Lencer	M.D.	Associate Professor of Pediatrics	CH	BBS		Bacterial toxin entry and immunoglobulin transport in mucosal epithelial cells
Dr. Cammie Lesser	M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine	MGH	BBS		Modeling mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis.
Dr. Anthony Letai	M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine	DFCI	BBS		Targeting apoptosis regulation in cancer
Dr. Norman Letvin	M.D.	Professor of Medicine	BIDMC	IMM	VIR	Immune response to human and primate retroviruses. T lymphocyte-mediated immunity to AIDS viruses in nonhuman primates and man. (VIR)
Dr. Michael Levin	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology	FORS	BBS		The biophysics and molecular genetics of biological information flow. We use the contexts of morphogenesis in chick and frog embryos, and regeneration in flatworms, to understand how ion flux and gap-junctional communicatoin underlies signal exchange between cells. We also investigate the molecular basis of memory in flatworms
Dr. Bruce Levy		Associate Professor of Medicine	BWH	BBS		Resolution of Lung Inflammation and Injury
Dr. Stephen Liberles	Ph.D.	Instructor in Cell Biology	HMS	BBS
Dr. Andrew Lichtman	M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Pathology	BWH	IMM		Lymphocyte-endothelial interactions; T cell cytokine gene regulation; immunopathology of blood vessel walls.
Dr. Jeff Lichtman		Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology	HU-Camb	NSCI		The Study of Synaptic Competition by Visualizing Synaptic Rearrangements Directly in Living Animals Using Modern Optical Techniques
Dr. Judy Lieberman	Ph.D., M.D.	Professor of Pediatrics	CBR	IMM	VIR, BBS	Mechanism of CTL-induced cell death and CTL response to HIV-1.
Dr. David Livingston	M.D.	Emil Frei Professor of Medicine	DFCI	BBS	VIR	Molecular biology of DNA tumor virus-transformation; mechanism of oncogene and antioncogene product action in vivo and in vitro; cell-cycle control mechanism ananlysis
Dr. Margaret Livingstone	Ph.D.	Professor of Neurobiology	HMS	NSCI		Anatomical and physiological studies of the primate visual system.
Dr. Eng Lo	Ph.D.	Professor of Radiology	MGH/E	NSCI		Mechanisms of cell death in stroke and trauma
Dr. Mary Loeken	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine (Physiology)	JDC	NSCI		Transcription regulation during mamalian neural tube development.
Dr. A. Thomas Look	M.D.	Professor of Pediatrics	DFCI	BBS	IMM	Genetic models of Leukemogenesis
Dr. Stephen Lory	Ph.D.	Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics	HMS	BBS		Host pathogen interactions.
Dr. Joseph Loscalzo		Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic	BWH	BBS		Endothelial Cell, Nitric Oxide, Proteomic Redox Regulation
Dr. Bradford Lowell	M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Medicine	BIDMC	NSCI		Genetic Engineering in Mice is Used to Investigate Neurocircuits Thought to Regulate Metabolism and Behavior
Dr. Kun Ping Lu	M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine	BIDMC	BBS		Cell Growth Regulation, Telomere Maintenance and Human Diseases.
Dr. Hongbo Luo	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Pathology	CH	BBS		Cell Signaling in Innate Immunity
Dr. Francis Luscinskas	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Pathology	BWH	IMM		Cell biology, biochemistry and immunology of leukocyte-endothelial adhesion.
Dr. Andrew Luster	Ph.D., M.D.	Professor of Medicine	MGH/E	IMM		Basic biology and pathobiology of the chemokine superfamily of chemotactic cytokines.