Michael Levin, MBE PhD FRCPCH FMedSci, is a Professor of Paediatrics and International Child Health, at Imperial College London. He works as a paediatric infectious diseases consultant and has led research focused on the diagnosis and treatment of a range of childhood infections including meningococcal disease, tuberculosis, bacterial sepsis and Kawasaki disease. He led the EU funded PERFORM study investigating the application of RNA transcriptomics to improve diagnosis of childhood infection. He leads the NIH funded study Validation of Biomarkers of Pediatric TB and further development for use in diagnosis of childhood TB.

In 2020 he was awarded €22.5 million EU funding to develop a rapid test for serious illnesses – the DIAMONDS project (Diagnosis and Management of Febrile Illness using RNA Personalised Molecular Signature Diagnosis)