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Wesleyan University.
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John Coffin
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Raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Coffin is a professor of Genetics and Molecular Microbiology at Tufts University in Boston. He is also the director of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Drug Resistance Program of the National Cancer Institute (National Cancer Institute) and serves as Special Advisor to the Director of the Center for Cancer Research at National Cancer Institute. He has advised policy committees at the national level regarding virus-related matters. Coffin was programme committee chair for the 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in 2011.
Coffin received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University.
His postdoctoral advisor was Charles Weissmann of the University of Zürich. Coffin began his faculty appointment at Tufts in 1975.
Coffin"s Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome research reflects his interests in molecular biology, virus-host relationships, pathogenesis and viral evolution and population dynamics.
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He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1999) and a recipient of American Cancer Society professorship.
