Ofer LevyAcademic

Biography

Ofer Levy, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist and board-certified paediatric infectious disease specialist who directs the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children's Hospital and holds a professorship in Paediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and is an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The Precision Vaccines Program applies precision medicine principles to vaccinology, conducting basic and translational research to develop next-generation vaccines and therapeutics tailored to vulnerable populations including infants, older adults, and the immunocompromised. Levy received his MD and PhD from New York University and completed his paediatric residency and fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Boston Children's Hospital. He served as a voting member of the US Food and Drug Administration's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), participating in the Emergency Use Authorisation and approval of COVID-19 vaccines. He has more than 200 publications and a Google Scholar H-index of 74, and has been quoted in international media including the BBC, the New York Times, and Scientific American on vaccine policy and immunology.

References

1. 1.Ofer Levy | Researchers | Boston Children's Hospital — Confirms current role as principal investigator, staff physician, Director of the Precision Vaccines Program, Professor of Paediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Member of the Broad Institute; educational background at Yale and NYU; residency and fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital.
2. 2.Ofer Levy | World Vaccine Congress Europe — Confirms FDA VRBPAC membership and participation in COVID-19 vaccine EUA and approval; CEPI funding; vaccine research areas; BBC media appearances.
3. 3.Dr. Ofer Levy, MD – Doximity — Confirms more than 200 publications and Google Scholar H-index of 74; FDA VRBPAC service; media appearances.
4. 4.Ofer Levy, PhD, MD | ARMR Sciences — Confirms NIH/NIAID Adjuvant Discovery programme leadership and IDEAL systems biology programme; vaccine development pipeline including fentanyl overdose vaccine.
5. 5.Ofer Levy – Google Scholar

Expertise

Cited on

• Long Covid

Stated areas of expertise

• Precision vaccinology
• Infant and neonatal immunology
• Vaccine adjuvant discovery
• Infectious disease in vulnerable populations
• COVID-19 vaccine policy
• Systems biology and translational immunology

Notable achievements

• Served as a voting member of the FDA's VRBPAC and participated in the Emergency Use Authorisation and approval of COVID-19 vaccines. Source ↗
• Has accumulated more than 200 publications and a Google Scholar H-index of 74. Source ↗
• Directs NIH/NIAID-supported Adjuvant Discovery and Development Program contracts and the Immune Development in Early Life (IDEAL) systems biology programme. Source ↗
• Precision Vaccines Program funded by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to leverage systems biology for vaccine safety research. Source ↗
• Cited over 21,479 times according to Google Scholar. Source ↗

What they’ve said

• “This association with long COVID is an interesting finding as millions around the world suffer from this chronic condition. Having new insight as to the molecular and viral associations with long COVID could point the way to better understanding and ultimately better diagnostics and treatments.”

  MD, PhD, director of the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children's · Long Covid · 27 Aug 2026 · COVID-19 awakens dormant viruses — and one is linked to long COVID ↗

• “Although many no longer think of COVID being a problem, up to 50,000 Americans died of COVID in [the] 2025-2026 respiratory season and some estimates suggest over 10 million U.S. adults suffer from long COVID. We need to help these patients recover with the best outcomes.”

  MD, PhD, principal investigator at Boston Children's Hospital · Long Covid · 12 Aug 2026 · Severe COVID may awaken dormant viruses, leading to autoimmune disease, long COVID ↗

Source references

1. COVID-19 awakens dormant viruses — and one is linked to long COVIDsciencedaily.com · 27 Aug 2026
2. Severe COVID may awaken dormant viruses, leading to autoimmune disease, long COVIDcidrap.umn.edu · 12 Aug 2026

Contact & links

• Staff pagehttps://www.childrenshospital.org/researchers/ofer-levy
• Staff pagehttps://research.childrenshospital.org/researchers/ofer-levy
• Websitehttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Kvtn7BsAAAAJ&hl=en

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