Shahin Rafii

Dr. Rafii is the Arthur B. Belfer Professor of Genetic Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Rafii, a board-certified hematologist-oncologist, is engaged in basic and translational research as well as patient care. He is the director of the Ansary Stem Cell Institute at Weill Cornell and is a Howard Hughes investigator.

Dr. Rafii was the first to develop the innovative E4-ORF1 technology to generate abundant stable and functional endothelial cells. He received his M.D. degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine followed by a fellowship in Hematology-Oncology at Weill Cornell.

He carried out his post-doctoral training in vascular and hematopoietic stem cell biology under the supervision of Dr. Ralph Nachman and Malcolm Moore at Weill Cornell. He is the principal inventor in numerous patents on therapeutic uses of vascular cells for stem cell self-renewal and organ regeneration as well as tumor targeting.