Levine Awarded Prize for Research

PORTLAND, Ore.Mark Levine, Ph.D., chief of the Molecular and Clinical Nutrition Section at the National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Diseases, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was awarded the Linus Pauling Institute Prize for Health Research. Dr. Mark Levine is a passionate scientist and one of the true pioneers in the study of vitamin C, especially in its relationship to cancer, said Balz Frei, Ph.D., director of the Linus Pauling Institute (www.lpi.oregonstate.edu). His work has built on some of the earliest findings about vitamin C made by Pauling himself, has been instrumental in raising the amounts now recommended for daily intake, and has contributed a great deal to our understanding of this nutrients biological functions, its transport into cells, and its role in immune function.