BIOGRAPHY Arthur Levin Arthur Levin received his medical degree from the University of Glasgow. He interned at Bellevue and Memorial Hospitals and was subsequently a staff member of the Memorial Hospital and the Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York City. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Tumour Biology at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, and a staff member at the International Agency for Research and Cancer, WHO, posted to Nairobi and thereafter to London. He has also been a Senior Investigator for the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom and Principal Investigator for the Research Triangle Institute on contracts with the National Cancer Institute for studies on the Epidemiology of Human Retroviruses. He has been a consultant for the National Cancer Institute at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Hiroshima. He is currently head of the East Africa Research Project at the Department of Virology, St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School in London. This unit is concerned with studies in Tanzania of familial Burkitt’s lymphoma and studies of retroviral and other viral diseases. Dr Levin’s work has largely been on immunology, virology and epidemiology in connection with neoplastic diseases in developing countries. His international studies have focused on East Africa, but he has also carried out investigations in India, Pakistan, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Honduras and Colombia. Copyright © 2008 The International Network For Cancer Treatment and Research