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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Nobel Prize for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2001 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Michael Levitt is a researcher affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their work spans several scientific domains, with a primary focus on molecular biology, oncology, modeling and simulation, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Levitt's research interests include key topics such as:

  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Climate change and health impacts
  • Protein structure and dynamics
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Global health care issues
  • Machine learning in materials science

The researcher has published extensively, with frequent publications in venues like bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, Biophysical Journal, and European Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael Levitt include:

  • Comparison of pandemic excess mortality in 2020-2021 across different empirical calculations (2022) published in Environmental Research
  • Excess death estimates from multiverse analysis in 2009-2021 (2023) published in European Journal of Epidemiology

Levitt has also collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Francesco Zonta, John P. A. Ioannidis, Leonid Pereyaslavets, Ganesh Kamath, and Oleg Butin.

Their work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in 2013, awarded for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems. They are also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2010, a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2002, a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom since 2001, and a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Theoretical studies of enzymic reactions: Dielectric, electrostatic and steric stabilization of the carbonium ion in the reaction of lysozyme

    A. Warshel;A. Warshel;M. Levitt;M. Levitt

  • Conformations of immunoglobulin hypervariable regions.

    Cyrus Chothia;Cyrus Chothia;Arthur M. Lesk;Anna Tramontano;Michael Levitt;Michael Levitt

  • Structural patterns in globular proteins

    Michael Levitt;Cyrus Chothia

  • A simplified representation of protein conformations for rapid simulation of protein folding

    Michael Levitt;Michael Levitt

  • Computer simulation of protein folding

    Michael Levitt;Arieh Warshel;Arieh Warshel

  • A humanized antibody that binds to the interleukin 2 receptor.

    Cary Queen;William P. Schneider;Harold E. Selick;Philip W. Payne

  • Structure of nucleosome core particles of chromatin

    J. T. Finch;L. C. Lutter;D. Rhodes;R. S. Brown

  • Aromatic rings act as hydrogen bond acceptors

    Michael Levitt;Max F. Perutz

  • Protein normal-mode dynamics: trypsin inhibitor, crambin, ribonuclease and lysozyme.

    Michael Levitt;Christian Sander;Peter S. Stern

  • Induction of heme oxygenase is a rapid, protective response in rhabdomyolysis in the rat

    Karl A. Nath;Gyorgy Balla;Gregory M. Vercellotti;Jozsef Balla

  • Conformational preferences of amino acids in globular proteins

    Michael Levitt

  • Whole tissue hydrogen sulfide concentrations are orders of magnitude lower than presently accepted values

    Julie Furne;Aalia Saeed;Michael D. Levitt

  • Accurate modeling of protein conformation by automatic segment matching

    Michael Levitt

  • The ASTRAL Compendium in 2004.

    John-Marc Chandonia;Gary Chung Hon;Nigel S. Walker;Loredana Lo Conte

  • Calibration and Testing of a Water Model for Simulation of the Molecular Dynamics of Proteins and Nucleic Acids in Solution

    Michael Levitt;Miriam Hirshberg;Ruth Sharon;Keith E. Laidig

  • Helix to helix packing in proteins

    Cyrus Chothia;Michael Levitt;Douglas Richardson

  • Automatic identification of secondary structure in globular proteins

    Michael Levitt;Jonathan Greer

  • Accurate simulation of protein dynamics in solution.

    Michael Levitt;Ruth Sharon

  • Refinement of protein conformations using a macromolecular energy minimization procedure

    Michael Levitt;Shneior Lifson

  • The ASTRAL compendium for protein structure and sequence analysis

    Steven E. Brenner;Patrice Koehl;Michael Levitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy J Wilt
Timothy J Wilt University of Minnesota
John H. Bond
John H. Bond Veterans Health Administration
Mark Gerstein
Mark Gerstein Yale University
Arieh Warshel
Arieh Warshel University of Southern California
Steven E. Brenner
Steven E. Brenner University of California, Berkeley
Axel T. Brunger
Axel T. Brunger Stanford University
Cyrus Chothia
Cyrus Chothia MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Valerie Daggett
Valerie Daggett University of Washington
Sarah J. Hardcastle
Sarah J. Hardcastle Sheffield Hallam University
Ram Samudrala
Ram Samudrala University at Buffalo, State University of New York

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