Arnold J. Levine, PhD

Dr. Levine is a distinguished leader in cancer research and currently serves as Professor Emeritus of Systems Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2001, he was the first recipient of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research for his discovery of the tumor suppressor protein p53. He also received the 1998 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology for Biochemistry.

Dr. Levine established the Simons Center for Systems Biology, which focuses on research at the intersection of molecular biology and the physical sciences. He is also the vice chairperson of Stand Up To Cancer’s Scientific Advisory Committee and has initiated a program of research collaborations to develop novel approaches to solve important problems in cancer research. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1991 and to its Institute of Medicine in 1995. He also chaired the National Cancer Advisory Board, advising the National Academy of Sciences and its Institute of Medicine on cancer policy.