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| Occupation: | Professor, surgeon, scientist | ||||||||
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| Education: | Cornell University (BS) Case Western Reserve University (MD, PhD) | ||||||||
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Michael B. Yaffe is an American scientist, professor, surgeon, and retired U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps Colonel. He is currently the David H. Koch Professor of Biology & Biological Engineering at MIT and a trauma surgeon at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.[1] In 2016, the United States Army awarded him the Bronze Star Medal for his services as a trauma surgeon on active duty in Afghanistan.[2] He also treated many of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.[3]
Yaffe graduated from Pikesville High School in Baltimore, MD in 1977. He received a B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering from Cornell University in 1981, and his Ph.D. and M.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1987 and 1989, respectively. He then completed a residency at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, as well as a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School.[4]
The main focus of Yaffe's research is decoding natural cell signaling pathway behavior using bioinformatics, combinatorial chemistry, cell biology, physical biochemistry, structural biology and molecular genetics.[5] The stated goal of his team's research is to "understand how signaling pathways are integrated at the molecular and systems level to control cellular responses."[6]
Besides his professorship at MIT, Yaffe is also an attending surgeon at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and the Chief Scientific Editor of the peer-reviewed science journal Science Signaling, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[7] He is a co-founder of Consensus Pharmaceuticals, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, On-Q-ity, the DNA Repair Company, Applied Biomath, and Thrombo-Therapeutics where he also serves as a member of its scientific advisory board. [4]
He currently has a number of highly cited articles. Two of Yaffe's papers have over 850 citations, and several others have over 400 citations.[8]