Biochemistry

Rodney Levine graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in chemistry and an A.B. in biology in 1968 and earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in physiology from Stanford in 1973. He completed his residency in pediatrics at the University of Colorado Medical Center in 1975 and his fellowship in perinatal medicine at the University of Colorado Medical Center and Denver Children’s Hospital in 1977. He joined the NHLBI in 1977 as a research associate and rose to become Chief of the Laboratory of Biochemistry in 2008. He is board certified in pediatrics and in neonatal-perinatal medicine and is professor emeritus at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Dr. Levine has authored or coauthored more than 200 papers. He holds memberships with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Pediatric Society, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Society for Free Radical Biology which has named him a Fellow of the Society.