René H. Levy is Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutics at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy, where he served as chair of pharmaceutics for twenty-six years. He recently received a lifetime achievement award for his work on anti-epileptic drugs. He holds a BS in Pharmacy from the University of Paris, and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of California, San Francisco. He has published hundreds of articles and co-edited several books on pharmacology, including Metabolic Drug Interactions, and Anti-Epileptic Drugs.
In 2011, he turned his knowledge of neuroscience to the study of why we hate with the publication of his book, Baseless Hatred. In response to the 2016 election and his concern that civilizations can be destroyed from within by political hatred, he devised his People Over Politics plan and wrote Mending America’s Political Divide, People Over Partisan Politics. He is married with three children and lives in Seattle.
