John Coffin
PhD
American Cancer Society Research Professor
👥Biography 个人简介
John Coffin is a founding figure in retrovirology who has made seminal contributions to understanding endogenous retroviruses in the human genome. His work on HERV-K has revealed cancer-specific expression patterns and demonstrated that HERV-K proteins are presented on the surface of cancer cells, making them targets for immunotherapy. He has provided evolutionary and functional frameworks for understanding the role of ancient retroviruses in cancer.
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Last updated: 2026-04-01 | All information from publicly available academic sources
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