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Myron J. Levin, MD, is a professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colorado. He directs a clinic for research on experimental vaccines and antiviral drugs, and maintains the HIV clinic for children and pregnant women at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Dr Levin graduated from Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1960. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), and spent the next 3 years at the National Institutes of Health (NIH); the last 2 years at NIH were devoted to research in molecular virology. Dr Levin returned to Harvard in 1969 to complete a fellowship in infectious diseases with the combined adult-pediatric training program at Children’s Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital, and remained as the first chief of infectious diseases at the Sidney Farber Cancer Center (now the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute). From 1982 to 2000 he was chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colorado, and the Children’s Hospital of Denver, and director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at the University of Colorado Hospital. Dr Levin’s clinical interests are in antiviral therapy, the immune response to herpesvirus infections, and vaccine science. His laboratory studies focus on latency of herpesviruses in human neurons, and the nature of latent herpesviruses in human ganglia. Clinical studies focus on the immune response to established and experimental vaccines and correlates of protection, especially in older vaccinees. Dr Levin was a member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) for 5 years, serving as its chair for the past 2 years. Dr Levin has authored more than 400 original articles and edited 12 books.