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Biography
Elizabeth Marion Jaffee is the deputy director of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, deputy director of the Institute of Clinical and Translational Research, and professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her research is focused on immunological treatments for cancer. She is the president-elect of the American Association for Cancer Research, expected to serve from 2018-2019.
Jaffee completed her undergraduate degree at Brandeis University in 1981 and earned her MD from New York Medical College in 1985. Following medical school, she did her residency at Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA. After residency she received a position as a research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh.
In 1989, Jaffee moved to Johns Hopkins as a clinical fellow, and joined the faculty as an assistant professor of oncology in 1992.
Jaffee is the chair of the National Cancer Advisory Board for the National Cancer Institute, which she has been a member of since 2013, and co-chair of the NCI "Blue Ribbon Panel" for the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative. She is a leader of the Stand up to Cancer Dream Team for pancreatic cancer.
Awards
- 2006 - Spore Program Investigator of the Year from the NCI
- 2012 - Johns Hopkins University Office of Women in Science and Medicine Vice Dean’s Award
- 2015 - AACR Joseph H. Burchenal Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research