Alissa Kleinhenz, MD
Clinical Fellow
Medicine
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Reza Gandjei Humanism Award, UCSF Internal Medicine Residency, 2023
• Alpha Omega Alpha, University of Michigan Medical School, 2020
• Department of Internal Medicine Senior Scholarship, University of Michigan Medical School, 2020
• Medical Research Fellowship, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2018-2019
• Dean's Merit Scholarship, University of Michigan Medical School, 2015-2020
• Duke Biology Faculty Award, Duke University, 2014
• Phi Beta Kappa, Duke University, 2014

Education & Training

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• Internal Medicine Residency University of California, San Francisco 2023
• MD University of Michigan Medical School 2020
• BS Biology, English Duke University 2014
• Hematology Fellowship University of California, San Francisco

Publications (5)

Top publication keywords:
Ribosomal ProteinsHealth PersonnelReceptor, Angiotensin, Type 1Academic Medical CentersAngiotensin IICoronavirus InfectionsBetacoronavirusPandemicsbeta-ArrestinsStudents, MedicalArrestinsZebrafishPneumonia, ViralAnemia, Diamond-BlackfanGTP-Binding Proteins

• An atypical form of 60S ribosomal subunit in Diamond-Blackfan anemia linked to RPL17 variants.
  JCI insight 2024 Fellmann F, Saunders C, O'Donohue MF, Reid DW, McFadden KA, Montel-Lehry N, Yu C, Fang M, Zhang J, Royer-Bertrand B, Farinelli P, Karboul N, Willer JR, Fievet L, Bhuiyan ZA, Kleinhenz AL, Jadeau J, …
• Medical Students Are Not Essential Workers: Examining Institutional Responsibility During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2020 Menon A, Klein EJ, Kollars K, Kleinhenz ALW
• Angiotensin and biased analogs induce structurally distinct active conformations within a GPCR.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2020 Wingler LM, Skiba MA, McMahon C, Staus DP, Kleinhenz ALW, Suomivuori CM, Latorraca NR, Dror RO, Lefkowitz RJ, Kruse AC
• Molecular mechanism of biased signaling in a prototypical G protein-coupled receptor.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2020 Suomivuori CM, Latorraca NR, Wingler LM, Eismann S, King MC, Kleinhenz ALW, Skiba MA, Staus DP, Kruse AC, Lefkowitz RJ, Dror RO
• Structure of the M2 muscarinic receptor-β-arrestin complex in a lipid nanodisc.
  Nature 2020 Staus DP, Hu H, Robertson MJ, Kleinhenz ALW, Wingler LM, Capel WD, Latorraca NR, Lefkowitz RJ, Skiniotis G