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Larisa Litovchick, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine

Larisa Litovchick, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and a member of the Cancer Biology research program at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is an Associate Director in VCU's physician-scientist training environment and has a long-standing record of NIH- and DOD-supported research on the evolutionarily conserved DREAM transcriptional repressor complex. Her work helped define mammalian DREAM, identify the DYRK1A–LIN52 phosphorylation mechanism required for its assembly, and establish links between DREAM activity, cellular quiescence, tumor dormancy and cancer therapy response.

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