Jean E. Schaffer

Jean Elise Schaffer is an American cardiologist and scientist. She is the Virginia Minnich Distinguished Professor of Medicine and director of the Diabetic Cardiovascular Disease Center and Diabetes Research Center at Washington University School of Medicine.

Education

Schaffer completed an A.B. in biochemistry, phi beta kappa and magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1982. She earned an M.D., cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1986.[1] Her dissertation was titled Functional analysis of ORI₁, a herpes simplex virus type 1 origin of DNA synthesis.[2] Schaffer completed an internship and residence in medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in 1989. She conducted a clinical fellowship in cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 1993. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute in 1995.[1]

Career

Schaffer is the Virginia Minnich Distinguished Professor of Medicine and director of the Diabetic Cardiovascular Disease Center and Diabetes Research Center at Washington University School of Medicine.[1]

Awards and honors

In 1995, Schaffer won the Heinrich Wieland Prize for lipid research. In 2003, Schaffer was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.[3] She became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008.[1]

References
  1. "Jean E. Schaffer, MD". Cardiovascular Division. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
  2. Schaffer, Jean Elise (1986). Functional analysis of ORI₁, a herpes simplex virus type 1 origin of DNA synthesis (Thesis). OCLC 230855794.
  3. "The American Society for Clinical Investigation". Retrieved 2019-07-11.
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