Bruce Levine, Ph.D. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Dr. Levine is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania. He began his scientific career at the Wistar Institute during summers in high school and as an undergraduate at Penn. After graduation in 1984, he worked as a technician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia examining immune responses following Varicella (Chicken Pox) vaccination.

Dr. Levine received his Ph. D. in Immunology and Infectious Diseases from the Johns Hopkins University in 1992. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, MD and later an Investigator at NMRI and Research Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University for the Health Sciences. During this time, he developed a system for large scale efficient culture of lymphocytes that has proved to be the foundation for several current Phase I clinical trials of adoptive immunotherapy for infection or malignancy at the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania.