Urologic Diseases Research Updates
Spring/Summer 2009

NIDDK Appoints Levin as Scientific Director

Ira Levin, Ph.D., will take the post of scientific director of the Intramural Research Program (IRP) for the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

With a Ph.D. in chemistry from Brown University, Levin has focused recently on applying vibrational infrared and Raman spectroscopic techniques to elucidate the conformational, dynamical, thermodynamic, and functional properties of both intact and model cellular membranes.

Levin has more than 45 years of experience working for the National Institutes of Health, including 14 years as the NIDDK’s deputy scientific director and 3 years as acting director of the NIDDK’s IRP. Concurrently, Levin served as chief of the NIDDK’s Molecular Biophysics Section.

The NIDDK’s IRP conducts basic, translational, and clinical biomedical research related to diabetes and other endocrine disorders, bone and metabolic diseases, nutritional disorders, and digestive, kidney, and hematologic diseases. Intramural research is conducted at the Institute’s laboratories and clinical facilities in Bethesda, MD, and in Phoenix.

To learn more about the NIDDK’s IRP, visit www2.niddk.nih.gov/NIDDKLabs/NIDDKLabs.htm.

NIH Publication No. 09–5743
August 2009

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