Megan Levings

Megan Levings is a Professor at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Surgery and School of Biomedical Engineering. She serves as Head of the Immunity in Health and Disease program at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute while maintaining associate membership in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Her research focuses on harnessing regulatory T cells (Tregs) for immune tolerance therapies in transplantation and autoimmune diseases.

Research Themes:

• Treg molecular/cellular biology
• Clinical Treg therapy trials
• Standardized immune monitoring implementation
• Engineering antigen-specific Tregs
• Transplant rejection prevention
• Autoimmune disease treatment

Key Collaborations:

• Canadian National Transplantation Research Program
• Canucks for Kids Fund Childhood Diabetes Laboratories
• BC Diabetes Research Network

Facilities:

• Located at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
• Laboratory Room A4-186