Jeffrey Drebin is a surgeon and scientist. He serves as the Department of Surgery Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

Biography

Drebin earned his MD and PhD from Harvard Medical School, before completing his general surgery residency, and surgical oncology fellowship, at Johns Hopkins Medical School. His PhD research, performed with Mark Greene and Robert Weinberg, involved the creation of monoclonal

antibodies An antibody (Ab), also known as an immunoglobulin (Ig), is a large, Y-shaped protein used by the immune system to identify and neutralize foreign objects such as pathogenic bacteria and viruses. The antibody recognizes a unique molecule of the ...

targeting the Her2/neu protein and demonstrating in preclinical models that such antibodies could inhibit cancer cell growth '' in vitro'' and '' in vivo''. This work was focused on targeted cancer therapy and the creation of the drugs trastuzumab ( Herceptin) and pertuzumab ( Perjeta).

Career

In 1995, after finishing his residency, Drebin became an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine. He became an Associate Professor in 1999, and then a full Professor of Surgery and of Molecular Biology &

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in 2002. Drebin began working at

Penn Medicine The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) is a major multi-hospital health system headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. UPHS and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania together comprise Penn Medicine, ...

in 2004, when he was hired as Chief of the Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery. In 2009, he was named Chair of the Department. While there, he joined a Stand Up to Cancer “Dream Team” against

pancreatic cancer Pancreatic cancer arises when cell (biology), cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a Neoplasm, mass. These cancerous cells have the malignant, ability to invade other parts of t ...

as a co-Principal Investigator alongside

Craig B. Thompson Craig B. Thompson (born 1953) is an American cell biologist and a former president of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Education and career Thompson received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and went on to earn his medical ...

. In 2017, Drebin moved to Memorial Sloan Kettering to become Department of Surgery Chair. In addition to his responsibilities as Chair, he provides surgical treatments for patients with pancreatic, gallbladder, bile duct, liver, and stomach cancers. His research focuses on the development of new targeted therapies.

Other roles

* President, Society of Clinical Surgery (2010-2012) * President, Philadelphia Academy of Surgery (2014) * President, Society of Surgical Oncology (2015)

Awards

American Association for Cancer Research The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is the world's oldest and largest professional association related to cancer research. Based in Philadelphia, the AACR focuses on all aspects of cancer research, including basic, clinical, and t ...

Surgeon Scientist Award (2016) * Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (now the National Academy of Medicine) (2013) * John Rhea Barton Professorship (2009-2017)

References

External links

* https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/doctors/jeffrey-drebin {{DEFAULTSORT:Drebin, Jeffrey Cancer researchers American surgeons Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Washington University in St. Louis faculty Harvard Medical School alumni Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center physicians 20th-century American physicians 20th-century surgeons 21st-century American physicians 21st-century surgeons Members of the National Academy of Medicine