Stuart Pivar was born in 1930 in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School, where he studied chemistry and engineering, and received a BA in chemistry from Hofstra University in 1951.
Pivar holds a number of patents on processes and machinery for plastic molded industrial containment vessels.
After a quarter-century of collecting art, in 1980 Pivar started the New York Academy of Art, an accredited graduate art school grounded in the academic tradition.
In the mid-1990s Pivar’s attention shifted exclusively to scientific pursuits, founding Protease Inhibitor Labs at SUNY Stony Brook (for AIDS research, 1995-1999), Regenerative Medicine Labs (investigating therapeutic cloning, 1998-2002), and the Human Blueprint Laboratory (investigating origins of form, 1996 to the present).
Pivar is a long-time resident of New York City.
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