Lee Limbird

Lee Limbird (born November 27, 1948, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a pharmacologist, Dean of the School of Natural Science, Mathematics and Business & Professor in the Department of Life and Physical Sciences at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee. She subsequently married Tom Limbird, who was a student and resident in orthopedic surgery at Duke. One of his first students, she is credited with helping to establish the research direction of the Lefkowitz laboratory.

Career In 1979, Limbird joined Vanderbilt University as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology. She led her own lab for several years, focusing on the actions of epinephrine and norepinephrine in alpha2-adrenergic receptor pathways.

After 25 years at Vanderbilt, Limbird chose to join minority-serving institutions, in hopes of using her scientific administrative, and personal experience to help counter the impact of systemic racism.

Awards 1977, Young Investigator award, National Institutes of Health (NIH) 1979, Research Career Development Award, NIH 1987, John J. Abel Award in Pharmacology, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) Limbird was the second woman to receive this award, the first being Eva King Killam in 1954. 1998, Distinguished Alumni Award, College of Wooster 2004, Goodman and Gilman Award in Drug Receptor Pharmacology, ASPET 2013, Julius Axelrod Award, ASPET.