Jeffrey L. Platt, MD, is a Professor of Pathology at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½. He received his medical education at the University of Southern California and training at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and the University of Minnesota. He has held professorships at the University of Minnesota, Duke University, the Mayo Clinic, and the University of Michigan. He has published more than 600 papers, five books, and numerous patents. He is a recipient of Clinician-Scientist and Established Investigator Awards from the American Heart Association, a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health, a fellow of the American Heart Association, and a member of the Association of American Physicians and the National Academy of Medicine.
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Platt's research has contributed advances in diverse fields including the immunobiology of transplantation, cancer and infectious disease, the pathogenesis of sepsis and inflammatory conditions, genetic pathways to malignant transformation, and novel approaches to organ and tissue replacement. Current projects explore inherited control of B cell responses, mechanisms of immune and inflammatory injury and of acquired resistance to such injury, and application of genetic engineering to immune tolerance and transplantation.