Background
Levine, Arnold Jay was born on July 30, 1939 in Brooklyn. Son of Samuel and Marion (Wisot) Levine.
university professor molecular biologist
Levine, Arnold Jay was born on July 30, 1939 in Brooklyn. Son of Samuel and Marion (Wisot) Levine.
Bachelor of Arts, Harper College State University of New York, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1966; Docteur Honoris Causa, Sorbonne, Paris, 1994.
He is currently Professor of Systems Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey. Levine discovered, with several colleagues, the p53 tumor suppressor gene in 1979, a protein involved in cell cycle regulation, and one of the most frequently mutated genes in human cancer, in work done as a professor in the biochemistry department at Princeton University. In 1979 Levine moved to become Chairman of the Department of Microbiology at Stony Brook School of Medicine before moving back to Princeton in 1984.
In 1998 Levine became the Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor of Cancer Biology and President of Rockefeller University.
While he was President of Rockefeller University, he opted to resign due to allegations that he had an inappropriate sexual encounter with a woman graduate student, under intoxication. According to the involved woman student, the encounter was consensual.
In 2002 he moved to the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and in 2004 added a joint appointment as Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. In addition to the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (Columbia University) and Albany Prize Levine has received numerous awards and honors.
Member cell biology panel American Heart Association, 1978-1980. Member of advisory committee virology and cell biology American Cancer Society, 1974-1978, vice chairman, 1976, chairman 1977. Member National Board Medical Examiners.
Member American Society Microbiology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences, 1991, Association Medical School Microbiology (chairman advisory and educational committees), Sigma Xi.
Married Linda Hirst, June 5, 1962. Children– Samantha, Alison.