Michael B. Yaffe
{{Short description|Scientific journal editor and professor}}
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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.{{cite web
| title = Military Trauma Care Skills Proved Beneficial to Boston Doctor
| url = http://home.fhpr.osd.mil/press-newsroom/fhpr-news/current_news/13-05-07/Military_Trauma_Care_Skills_Proved_Beneficial_to_Boston_Doctor.aspx
| publisher = The Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
| date = 2013-05-07
| accessdate = 2015-08-28
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150624043328/http://home.fhpr.osd.mil/press-newsroom/fhpr-news/current_news/13-05-07/Military_Trauma_Care_Skills_Proved_Beneficial_to_Boston_Doctor.aspx
| archive-date = 2015-06-24
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In 2016, the United States Army awarded him the Bronze Star Medal for his services as a trauma surgeon on active duty in Afghanistan.
{{cite web
| title = DR. YAFFE RECEIVES BRONZE STAR
| url = http://www.bidmc.org/Centers-and-Departments/Departments/Surgery/Surgery-News/2016/April-2016/Surgeon-Receives-Bronze-Star.aspx
| publisher = Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
| date = 2016-04-15
| accessdate = 2016-04-12
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He also treated many of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.
{{cite web
| title = Doctors Saved Lives, if Not Legs, in Boston
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/us/physical-legacy-of-bomb-blasts-could-be-cruel-for-boston-marathon-victims.html
| work = New York Times
| date = 2013-04-16
| accessdate = 2015-08-28
}}
Early life and education
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.
{{cite web
| title =Faculty biography
| publisher =The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
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| url = http://ki.mit.edu/people/faculty/yaffe
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| accessdate =2012-08-27}}
Research
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.
{{cite web
| title =People
| work = biography of Dr. Yaffe
| publisher =Department of Biological Engineering
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| url = http://web.mit.edu/be/people/yaffe.shtml
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| accessdate =2012-08-27}}
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."
{{cite web
| title =Faculty and areas of research
| work = biography
| publisher =MIT Department of Biology
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| url = https://www.mit.edu/~biology/facultyareas/facresearch/yaffe.html
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| accessdate =2012-08-27}}
Career
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.
{{cite web
| title =Editorial Board
| publisher =Science Signaling (AAAS)
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| url = http://stke.sciencemag.org/about/edboard
| doi =
| accessdate =2012-08-27}} 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.
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.{{cite web
| title =Search for MB Yaffe
| publisher =Google scholar
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| url = https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=mb+yaffe&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C22
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| accessdate =2012-08-27}}
References
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Category:MIT School of Engineering faculty
Category:American traumatologists