Jon Levine

Biography

Professor Jon D. Levine, MD, PhD, Division of Neurosciences, UCSF, is a leading researcher in pain. Dr. Levine’s research interests are in the area of pain and analgesia. He has been the recipient of several academic awards including: Young Investigator of the International Association of Pain, American Society for Clinical Investigation, Association of Academic Professors, Guest Investigator in the ARC Muscle Mechanisms Laboratory (Oxford University), Chancellor’s Commendation for Research Excellence (University of California, San Francisco), Hartford foundation fellow, Most Important New Research in Rheumatic Diseases (NIH Annual Report to Congress), Frederick J. Kerr award of the American Pain Society and Rita Allen Foundation fellow. He has published over 400 basic science and clinical articles in this area, funded by the National Institutes of Health. The areas of Dr. Levine’s research include elucidation of the transducers, second messenger systems and ionic channel mediating inflammatory, neuropathic and chronic widespread pain syndromes, the role of neuroimmune mechanisms in pain and inflammation, the mechanism of placebo analgesia, and sex differences in pain and analgesia. Dr. Levine received a bachelor’s degree in biophysics from the University of Michigan (1966), a PhD in neuroscience from Yale University (1972), and an MD degree from the University of California at San Francisco (1978). He trained in Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology (under Jack Stobo), and in Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (under Henry Bourne) (UCSF, 1983). He has been on the faculty at UCSF since and has been a Professor (Medicine, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Neuroscience) since 1993.

Research Interest

Neuroscience, Biophysics, Medicine