Tyler Jacks

Prof. Tyler Jacks is the Director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT – a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Cancer Center. His lab focuses on cutting-edge studies in cancer genetics and cancer immunology, including discoveries that led to the founding of Dragonfly.​ Prof. Jacks has pioneered the use of gene targeting technology to study cancer-associated genes and to construct mouse models of many human cancer types, closely recapitulating human disease and yielding novel insights into tumor development as well as new strategies for cancer detection and treatment. Jacks has served as Chair of the National Cancer Advisory Board of the NCI, was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), and is a past President of the AACR. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the inaugural class of Fellows of the AACR Academy. Prof. Jacks was co-chair of the White House's Cancer "Moonshot" Blue Ribbon Panel.​ He has a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Harvard, and a Ph.D. from UC San Francisco.