Benita Katzenellebogen Helps Discover How Estrogen Can Prevent Vascular Disease Without Increasing Cancer Risk

Swanlund Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Cell and Developmental Biology Benita Katzenellebogen contributed to a study led by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center that pinpointed a set of biological mechanisms through which estrogen confers its beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system, independent of the hormone's actions on cancer.