Myron Levin

Myron J. Levin is a Professor of Pediatrics & Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (UCSOM) in the section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, and he is the Associate Director of the Pediatric HIV Clinic. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1960 and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center (Einstein Medical School). He spent three years at the National Institutes of Health; the last two years devoted to research in molecular virology. He returned to Harvard in 1969 to complete a fellowship in Infectious Diseases and, as an Associate Professor, to become the first Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Sidney Farber Cancer Center (now the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute). In 1982, he moved to Colorado as a Professor and Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. In 2002, he resigned from this role but remained as Director of the Vaccine Research clinic. His research interests are in clinical virology, antiviral therapy, vaccinology, and immune responses to vaccines. He has published more than 450 peer-reviewed papers, chapters, and books.