Denise Louise Faustman MD, PhD

Dr. Faustman earned her M.D. and Ph.D. from Washington University School of Medicine in 1985. She completed her training in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and began her lab in 1987 at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Faustman is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Immunobiology Laboratories at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Her major research accomplishments include improving organ and cell transplants by modifying proteins on donor tissues so that the recipient’s body will not attack the cells. This led to the production of genetically modified pigs for organ donation and in 2003 earned her the prestigious National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine Award, “Changing the Face of Medicine", one of 300 American physicians, one of 35 in research, honored for her seminal scientific achievements in the history of the United States.