Stuart Levy Papers

Stuart B. Levy is the Director of the Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance at the Tufts University School of Medicine, as well as a Staff Physician at the Tufts Medical Center.

Levy was born in 1938. He earned his bachelor degree from Williams College, and his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965. While studying for his medical degree, Levy took time off to pursue additional research opportunities, including researching radiation genetics in Paris, and studying “transferable bacterial resistance to antibiotics” in Tokyo with Tsutomu Watanabe. After medical school, Levy completed his residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, before doing postdoctoral research at the National Institutes in Health.

A fundamental theme of Levy’s career has been researching the problem of antibiotic resistance. Over the course of more than four decades at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Levy specialized in hematology. He was a co-founder and president of The Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics. Levy was also a past President of the American Society for Microbiology, and a cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer of Paratek Pharmecuticals Inc. Additionally, in 1992, Levy founded and directed the Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance, investigating adaption responses of different cells. Levy has published over three hundred papers, and edited four books. He retired from the School of Medicine in 2018.