Dr. Levine was on the faculty of the Biochemistry Department of Princeton University from1968 to 1979, when he became chair and professor in the Department of Microbiology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, School of Medicine. Returning to Princeton University in 1984, he was named Harry C. Weiss Professor in the Life Sciences in the Department of Molecular Biology, a position he held until 1998. He chaired the Department between 1984 and 1996. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Rockefeller University in New York City from 1998 to 2002, as well as Heilbrunn Professor of Cancer Biology and laboratory head until joining the Institute in 2002.

Dr. Levine is a graduate of Harpur College, State University of New York, and earned his PhD in microbiology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Subsequently he was postdoctoral fellow of the Public Health Service at the California Institute of Technology. He holds honorary degrees from, among other institutions, Rider University, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, the Weizmann Institute of Science, and the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris.

The recipient of many honors, among his most recent are: the Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Biomedical Research from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (2000); the Keio Medical Science Prize of the Keio University Medical Science Fund, Japan (2000); the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research (2001); and the Award for Basic Research from the Surgical Society of Oncologists (2003).

Dr. Levine is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the Academy’s Institute of Medicine; he is also the author or coauthor of over 300 scientific papers, as well as a book, Viruses (1993).