Beth Levine
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
April 7, 1960 - June 14, 2020
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Scientific Discipline: Medical Genetics, Hematology, and Oncology Membership Type:
Member
(elected 2013)
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Beth Levine was the Charles Cameron Sprague Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and is an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Levine was recognized for her work on autophagy in physiology and disease. She was known particularly for her work on the mammalian autophagy gene, beclin 1, and the role of Beclin 1 and other components of the autophagy pathway in tumor suppression, innate immunity, aging, and metabolism. Dr. Levine was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1960. She graduated from Brown University in 1981 and from Cornell University Medical College in 1986, followed by a residency in internal medicine. She was a postdoctoral fellow in infectious diseases and virology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She was on the faculty in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons from 1992 to 2004, when she joined UT Southwestern to become chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases. In 2011, she became director of the Center for Autophagy Research at UT Southwestern. Dr. Levine was a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the American Association of Physicians.
