Michael S. Levine | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Yale University (PhD) |
| Known for | Homeobox, eve stripe-2, ascidian developmental biology |
| Awards | NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1996) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Developmental biology |
| Institutions | Princeton University University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Diego Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Alan Garen |
| Doctoral students | Albert Erives |
| Notes | |
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1998) | |
Michael Levine is an American developmental and cell biologist at Princeton University, where he is the Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and a Professor of Molecular Biology.[1][2]
Levine previously held appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, San Diego, and Columbia University. He is notable for co-discovering the Homeobox in 1983 and for discovering the organization of the regulatory regions of developmental genes.[3]