Arnold Levine

Dr. Levine is a pioneering cancer research scientist, having discovered the p53 tumor suppressor protein in 1979. He established the Simons Center for Systems Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study, which concentrates on research at the interface of molecular biology and the physical sciences in cancer biology.

Dr. Levine was previously President of The Rockefeller University from 1998 until his retirement in February 2002 and prior to that was the Harry C. Wiess Professor in Life Sciences and former Chairman of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University from 1984 until 1996. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and serves on a number of cancer center scientific advisory boards. Dr. Levine holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Harpur College, the State University of New York at Binghamton.