Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD	fellowship	09/2009	Neuroimmunology
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD	residency	06/2008	Neurology
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX	MD, PhD	05/2004	Medicine/Neuroscience
Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA	BA	06/1997	Biology

Michael Levy, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Neurology who was recently recruited to lead the research unit in the new Division of Neuroimmunology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His mission is to build a combined clinical and research neuroimmunology program to develop therapies for patients with autoimmune diseases of the central nervous system. Dr. Levy moved from Baltimore, MD, where was on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University since 2009 and Director of the Neuromyelitis Optica Clinic.

Clinically, Dr. Levy specializes in taking care of children and adults with rare neuroimmunological diseases including neuromyelitis optica, transverse myelitis, MOG antibody disease and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. In addition to four monthly clinics, Dr. Levy is the principal investigator on several clinical studies and drug trials for these conditions. In the laboratory, his research focuses on the development of animal models of neuromyelitis optica with the goal of tolerization as a sustainable long term treatment.

• Neuromyelitis Optica
• Devic's Disease
• Transverse Myelitis
• MOG Antibody Disease
• Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
• Optic Neuritis
• Aquaporin 4
• VPS37A
• Vacuolar Protein Sorting 37 Homolog A
• Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein
• Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis
• Tolerance, Immune