Michael C. Levin, M.D., is the inaugural Saskatchewan Multiple Sclerosis Endowed Clinical Research Chair and Professor of Neurology & Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology at the University of Saskatchewan. He received his Bachelors’ of Science degree in chemistry with special honors at the George Washington University, his medical degree at Pennsylvania State University and basic neuroscience training at The Salk Institute. Dr. Levin completed his residency training in neurology at The New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where Drs. Fred Plum and Jerry Posner mentored him during his residency including while he was chief neurology resident. He then completed his Multiple Sclerosis post-doctoral fellowship in the Neuroimmunology Branch at NIH with Dr. Henry McFarland and Steve Jacobson. He was recruited to the University of Tennessee in Memphis where he moved up the ranks to professor with tenure, led the MS clinic and developed a translational research program based on the role that dysfunctional RNA binding proteins play in the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration in MS and relevant MS models. His work has also been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine, Annals of Neurology, Neurology, the Journal of Comparative Neurology, and the Journal of Neuroscience Research. Dr. Levin has received more than 30 awards for academic excellence and his work has been recognized by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, American Academy of Neurology, the Society for Neuroscience and most recently, by a Canadian ‘Science, Technology, Innovation and Collaboration’ Award for the discovery of stress granules in brain tissue of an MS patient. Dr. Levin is married to his lovely wife for more than 29.2 years (and counting), Dr. Audrey Zucker-Levin, an academic physical therapist. He has two strappingly handsome sons and is an avid sailor and scuba diver.