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Sofya Savransky
Graduate Student Researcher
SOS61@pitt.edu
Education
B.S. General Biology, University of Maryland
B.A. Political Science, American University
M.S. Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University
Advisor
Jean-Pierre Vilardaga, PhD
Research Details
Publications
Journal Articles
Portales-Castillo I, Dean T, Cheloha RW, Creemer BA, Vilardaga JP,
Savransky S
, Khatri A, Jüppner H, Gardella TJ. Altered Signaling and Desensitization Responses in PTH1R Mutants Associated with Eiken Syndrome. Commun Biol. 2023 Jun 2;6(1):599. doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-04966-0. PMID: 37268817; PMCID: PMC10238420
Peña KA, White AD,
Savransky S
, Castillo IP, Jean-Alphonse FG, Gardella TJ, Sutkeviciute I, Vilardaga JP. Biased GPCR signaling by the native parathyroid hormone-related protein 1 to 141 relative to its N-terminal fragment 1 to 36. J Biol Chem. 2022 Sep;298(9):102332. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102332. Epub 2022 Aug 4. PMID: 35933010; PMCID: PMC9437850.
Langowski MD, Khan FA,
Savransky S
, Brown DR, Balasubramaniyam A, Harrison WB, Zou X, Beck Z, Matyas GR, Regules JA, Miller R, Soisson LA, Batchelor AH, Dutta S. Restricted valency (NPNA)n repeats and junctional epitope-based circumsporozoite protein vaccines against Plasmodium falciparum. NPJ Vaccines. 2022 Jan 27;7(1):13. doi: 10.1038/s41541-022-00430-y. Epub 2022 Jan 27.
Sutkeviciute I, Lee JY, White AD, Maria CS, Peña KA,
Savransky S
, Doruker P, Li H, Lei S, Kaynak B, Tu C, Clark LJ, Sanker S, Gardella TJ, Chang W, Bahar I, Vilardaga JP. Precise druggability of the PTH type 1 receptor. Nat Chem Biol. 2022 Mar;18(3):272-280. doi: 10.1038/s41589-021-00929-w. Epub 2021 Dec 23.