Arnold J. Levine
SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
Professor
School of Natural
Sciences

Arnold Levine’s research centers on the causes of cancer. In 1979, Levine and others discovered the p53 tumor suppressor protein, a molecule that inhibits tumor development. As chair of the National Institutes of Health Commission on AIDS Research and the National Academies Cancer Policy Board, he has helped determine national research priorities. He established the Institute’s Center for Systems Biology, which concentrates on research at the interface of molecular biology and the physical sciences; on genetics and genomics, polymorphisms and molecular aspects of evolution, signal transduction pathways and networks, stress responses, and pharmacogenomics in cancer biology.

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1966; Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1966-68; Professor, Princeton University, 1968-79; Professor, State University of New York, Stony Brook, School of Medicine, 1979-84; Harry C. Wiess Professor, Princeton University, 1984-98, Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, 1984-96; President and Chief Executive Officer, Rockefeller University, 1998-02, Heilbrunn Professor of Cancer Biology, 1998-02; Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, 2002-04, Professor, 2004-; Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Biomedical Research, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 2000; Keio Medical Science Prize, Keio University Medical Science Fund, 2000; Albany Medical Center Prize, 2001.