Tyler Jacks

Tyler Jacks
David H. Koch Professor of Biology
Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research
Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
Associate member, Broad Institute

The son of an MIT professor, Tyler Jacks followed a circuitous educational path before joining the MIT faculty in 1992. He is an award-winning pioneer in using gene-targeting technology in mice to study human cancer types. A former director of the Center for Cancer Research, he now heads the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, a groundbreaking cancer-research facility that unites scientists and engineers in the development of new treatment options.

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