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1651 4th StFloor 2, South Care Center, Suite 252San Francisco, CA 94158
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Education & Training
University of California at San FranciscoMAS, Clinical Research, 2014 - 2016
University of California San Francisco School of MedicinePost-Doctoral Fellowship, 2013 - 2016- Boston UniversityPost-Doctoral Fellowship, 2011 - 2013
Massachusetts General HospitalFellowship, Neuro-Infectious Diseases, 2011 - 2012
Mass General Brigham/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolResidency, Neurology, 2008 - 2011
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 2013 - 2028
MA State Medical License 2009 - 2014
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Elected Member Association of American Physicians, 2025
- Elected Member American Society for Clinical Investigation, 2025
- Award for Clinical and Scientific Excellence (Mid-Career) American Neurological Association, 2023
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Development of a Diagnostic Autoantibody Assay to a Consensus Motif for the Risk Prediction of Epstein-Barr Virus-Related Multiple Sclerosis.Krista M McCutcheon, Aaron Bodansky, Thomas T Ngo, Colette Caspar, Sydney Quintana
Neurology(R) Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. 2026-05-01 - Antigen specificity of clonally enriched CD8T cells in multiple sclerosis.Fumie Hayashi, Kristen Mittl, Ravi Dandekar, Josiah Gerdts, Ebtesam Hassan
Nature Immunology. 2026-03-01 - 1 citationsRecurrent severe viral infection in a child with inherited complete TBK1 deficiency.Sara Sebnem Kilic, Shuxiang Zhao, Zhiyong Liu, Yasin Karali, Koray Yalcin
Journal of Human Immunity. 2026-01-05
Journal Articles
- Integrating Host Response and Unbiased Microbe Detection for Lower Respiratory Tract Infection Diagnosis in Critically Ill AdultsCharles Langelier, Farzad Moazed, Stephanie Christenson, Alejandra Jauregui, Michael R. Wilson, Charles Y. Chiu, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Chronic Meningitis Investigated via Metagenomic Next-Generation SequencingLuke Strnad, Leonard H Calabrese, John P Betjemann, Maulik P Shah, Felicia C Chow, Mark P Gorman, John E Greenlee, Michael R Wilson, Megan B Richie, Whitney Harrington..., JAMA
Press Mentions
Scientists Detect Hidden Brain Damage Years Before MS SymptomsOctober 21st, 2025- How Multiple Sclerosis Harms a Brain Long Before Symptoms AppearOctober 20th, 2025
- Molecular Zip Code Draws Killer T Cells to Brain TumorsDecember 5th, 2024
Grant Support
- Autoimmune Encephalitis - Ataxia and Psychiatric Disease: Identifying and Characterizing Novel Antibody TargetsNIH/NIMH2020–2025
- Redefining Tuberculosis Meningitis with Metagenomics and Host TranscriptomicsNIH/NIAID2019–2024
- Next-Generation Diagnostics for Acute EncephalitisNIH/NINDS2016–2021
Professional Memberships
- Member
- Fellow
- American Neurological AssociationFellow
External Links
- Wilson Labhttp://wilsonlab.ucsf.edu
- UCSF Profilehttp://profiles.ucsf.edu/michael.r.wilson
- UCSF Center for Encephalitis and Meningitishttps://encephalitis.ucsf.edu
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