Lee Limbird Eberhardt was born on November 27,1948, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Lee Limbird subsequently married Tom Limbird, who was a student and resident in orthopedic surgery at Duke.
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In 1970, Lee Limbird joined the PhD program in biochemistry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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Lee Limbird left after two semesters but was encouraged to continue working on creatine phosphokinase isoenzyme detection as a research assistant with Charles Roe at Duke University.
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Lee Limbird's research, showing the importance of the MB isozyme of CPK in myocardial tissue for diagnosis of cardiac infarction, was accepted as the basis for her PhD degree, awarded in 1973 by UNC Chapel Hill.
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Lee Limbird then became a postdoctoral student, working with Robert J Lefkowitz on the molecular basis of cardiac disease.
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In 1979, Lee Limbird joined Vanderbilt University as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology.
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Lee Limbird led her own lab for several years, focusing on the actions of epinephrine and norepinephrine in alpha2-adrenergic receptor pathways.
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In 2008, Lee Limbird became Dean of the School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Business Administration at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Much of Lee Limbird's research has explored the activity of G-protein coupled receptors.
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Lee Limbird has demonstrated how alpha-2 adrenergic receptors are involved in regulation of blood pressure, suppression of pain, sedation and the action of opioid drugs.
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Lee Limbird has developed techniques for selectively manipulating such receptors.
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Lee Limbird has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the American Journal of Physiology, and Molecular Pharmacology.