Rebecca Sitsapesan

Career Sitsapesan later took up a post at the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College, London where she was made a British Heart Foundation lecturer in 1991. In 2001, she moved to the University of Bristol where she was made the Professor of Pharmacology in 2011. While there, she studied the role of FKBP12.6 and cADPR molecules in regulating the channels through which calcium ions flow. She also worked on the relation between protein kinase C and excessive amounts of calcium release into heart muscle, which can cause arrhythmias.

In August 2013, Sitsapesan moved to the University of Oxford, taking up the post of Professor of Pharmacology. She became a Tutorial Fellow in medicine at Hertford College in 2014, She headed a group studying ion channels and the release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores. She also collaborated with Antony Galione on the type 2 two-pore channel and the effects of ion release channels on lysosomes. She continued to contribute to and publish papers and supervise her laboratory until a few days before her death.

Personal life Sitsapesan was a Christian.