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Myron Max Levine (born February 11, 1944 in Riverdale, New York) is an American physician.

Levine attended school in the Bronx and received his bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1963. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia (Virginia Commonwealth University) in 1967. He received his doctorate (MD) in 1967. He completed undergraduate research stays in Karachi and Costa Rica and semesters abroad in Jerusalem and Paris. He completed his residency in pediatrics at the Bronx City Hospital and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. From 1970 to 1972 he was a fellow in the field of infectious diseases at the University of Maryland, where he became an assistant professor in 1972, an associate professor in 1975 and a professor in 1982. From 1984 to 2014 he headed the Department of Geographic Medicine and the Department of Tropical and Infectious Diseases in Pediatrics. He was the founding director and until 2015 director of the Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

In 1974, he received a degree (DTPH) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 1987/88 he was a Fellow of the Sackler Institute for Advanced Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is also a regular visiting professor in Peru.

He led clinical trials for the typhoid vaccine Ty21a, was involved in the rollout of a Haemophilus influenzae vaccine in several developing countries, and the development of the oral cholera vaccine Vaxchora (FDA approved in 2016). In addition to typhoid, paratyphoid and other Salmonella pathogens for vaccine production, he also researched bacterial dysentery pathogens with the aim of obtaining weakened strains for vaccine development.

In 2017 he received the Maxwell Finland Award. In 1998 he received the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Weblinks

 * University of Maryland
 * Biographie anlässlich des Finland Awards, pdf