David Sachs

Professor of Surgery
Columbia University Medical Center Professor Emeritus, Harvard Medical School and MGH

Dr. Sachs is currently Director of the Transplantation Biology Research Center Laboratories in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Transplantation Sciences and the first Paul S. Russell/Warner-Lambert Professor of Surgery (Immunology) at Harvard Medical School. He is also Professor of Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center’s Center for Translational Immunology (CCTI). Previously, Dr. Sachs was Visiting Professor, Department of Cell Research, Wallenberg Laboratory at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, where he initiated studies of the molecular biology of transplantation antigens in the miniature swine model. He also worked at the National Institutes of Health, where he developed a major program in transplantation research. He served as Chief of the Transplantation Biology Section, Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute in 1974, and Chief of the Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute in 1982.

Dr. Sachs has published over 700 articles in scientific journals. He is a member of the Editorial Board of several journals in his field, including: Clinical Transplantation, Transplantation and Xenotransplantation. He was one of the three North American Editors of Transplantation and was the founding Editor of Xenotransplantation.

He has an M.D., Magna Cum Laude, from Harvard Medical School. He received a Diplome d'Etudes Superieures de Sciences in organic chemistry from the University of Paris, where he studied as a Fulbright fellow and graduated from Harvard College, Summa Cum Laude, with an A.B. in Chemistry.