Dr. Elizabeth Jaffee is the first recipient of the Dana and Albert “Cubby” Broccoli Professorship in Oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center and a professor of pathology for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is also co-director of the Cancer Immunology Program and the Immunology and Hematopoiesis Division at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Jaffee also serves as a deputy director of the new Institute for Translational and Clinical Research at Johns Hopkins.
Board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology, Dr. Jaffee’s research is focused primarily on the development of novel vaccine approaches that overcome immune tolerance to developing pancreatic and breast cancers.
Dr. Jaffee’s work has been published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the Journal of Experimental Medicine, the Journal of Immunology, and Cancer Research.
She received her medical degree from New York Medical College and completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Presbyterian-University Hospital and is a clinical fellow in oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
