Myron Levine

Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, United States of America

Myron M Levine

Academic positions:
- Professor and Director of the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland School Of Medicine, Baltimore
- Former Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine

Any industry positions (last five years)
None declared

Research interests:
Dr. Levine has made substantial contributions in basic vaccinology and clinical research. In recent years, his basic laboratory research has focused on the use of attenuated Salmonella typhi as live oral typhoid vaccines and as live vector vaccines that express the protective antigens of unrelated pathogens and deliver them to the human immune system. His clinical research has involved studies of pathogenesis and the assessment of a variety of vaccines in adults and children in Baltimore, as well as in many developing countries. He has been a pioneer in carrying out clinical trials in developing countries, including studies of vaccines developed. He designed, arranged and supervised the performance of several large-scale, randomized, controlled field trials investigating the efficacy of live oral typhoid vaccines (which led to licensure of Ty21a by the FDA) and a vaccine to prevent invasive disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae type b.

Any other information:
Dr. Levine has served on numerous national and international vaccine committees, including as a member of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Programme for Vaccines and Immunization Steering Committee on New Vaccine Approaches. He Co-chaired the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) Task Force on Research and Development. He has acted as a consultant to many organizations: World Health Organization, NIH, Institute of Medicine, Department of Defense. Dr Levine is Past President of the American Epidemiological Society and President-elect of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

In addition, Dr. Levine is the primary editor of New Generation Vaccines, widely considered one of the most authoritative sources in the vaccines field and is on the editorial boards of Public Health Reviews, Vaccine and Human Vaccines.

Dr Levine's scientific credits encompass manuscripts, books, national and international committees/collaborations. He has been recipient of numerous awards including a Life Science Achievement Award by the University of Maryland and the Gold Medal Award of the Albert B. Sabin Foundation. He has also been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, the Association of American Physicians, the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Interurban Clinical Club.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Infectious Diseases > Bioterrorism (since 16 November 2005)

Myron Levine is a Section Head for Bioterrorism, part of the INFECTIOUS DISEASES Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

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