Oren Levy's Biography

Oren Levy, Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Oren Levy received his B.Sc. degree in Biology from Ben Gurion University (BGU), Israel. He carried out his M.Sc. and PhD research in BGU, focusing on key signaling pathways and their involvement in human mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) biology. Dr. Levy then joined the lab of Dr. Jeffrey Karp at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital as a postdoctoral research fellow. During his postdoctoral research, he focused on developing bio-engineering techniques to improve MSC homing to disease sites following transplantation to improve their therapeutic impact. Currently, as Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Levy is focused on developing strategies to advance targeted cell-based drug delivery.