Mark J. Levis, MD, PhD

Mark J. Levis, MD, PhD, is a professor of oncology, the director of the Adult Leukemia Service, and the codirector of the Division of Hematologic Malignancies at The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University. He is a graduate of the Medical Scientist Training Program from the University of California, San Francisco. He completed his residency training in internal medicine and a fellowship in medical oncology at Johns Hopkins University. 

His clinical expertise is focused on acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and chronic myeloid leukemia. His broad research goals are to identify and validate novel molecular therapeutic targets in hematopoietic malignancies. His research group is interested in the identification and preclinical development of novel targeted therapies, and, in particular, the translational step of this research by using correlative studies to incorporate these novel therapies into existing treatments.