Burlington, Mass.-based Tufts Medicine and Tufts University have appointed Iris Jaffe, MD, PhD, as inaugural director of the Tufts University-Tufts Medicine Research Enterprise.
Dr. Jaffe is the Elisa Kent Mendelsohn Professor of Molecular Cardiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and executive director of the Molecular Cardiology Research Institute at Tufts Medical Center, according to a Dec. 10 news release from the university.
She will lead efforts to integrate academic and clinical research across the health system and university. The enterprise will focus on five pillars of translational research: brain and behavior; cancer biology, care and survivorship; cardiovascular disease and critical care; transplant immunity and infection; and women’s health, nutrition and sex differences.
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