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Dr. Levin currently heads the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Chagas disease at the Institute for Research on Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He received a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1981 from the University of Leipzig, Germany and conducted postdoctoral work in France at INSERM, CNRS, and Institut Pasteur. He has received several prizes from the Argentine Society of Cardiology, and, in 1998 was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. Dr. Levin is a Howard Hughes International Research Scholar. As Full Professor at the School of Science and with the support of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Buenos Aires, he created and directs the first genomic facility of this University, CeGA (Center of Applied Genomics). He is also a member of the Board of the South South Initiative (SSI) of the World Health Organization Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (WHO - TDR), and the coordinator in the field of Trypanosomiases, including Chagas disease and African Sleeping Sickness. | 