Megan Levings
University of British Columbia & BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
Vancouver, BC
Dr. Megan Levings is a Professor in the Department of Surgery and the School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She also leads the Childhood Diseases Research Theme at the BC Children's Hospital Research Institute.
Dr. Levings completed her undergraduate studies in genetics at Simon Fraser University and earned her Ph.D. in genetics at UBC. She pursued postdoctoral training in immune regulation at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy in Milan, Italy.
Her research focuses on regulatory T cells (Tregs) and their role in immune tolerance. Dr. Levings' work aims to harness Tregs for therapeutic applications in transplantation and autoimmune diseases. She has developed methods to generate therapeutic Tregs and is involved in clinical trials to assess their efficacy in reducing transplant rejection.
Dr. Levings has received numerous awards, including the Canadian Society for Immunology Investigator Award and the YWCA Woman of Distinction in Science, Research & Technology. She is internationally recognized in human immunology and chairs the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies Centers of Excellence.