Dr. Farouc Jaffer graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Mathematical and Computational Sciences and received his M.D. and Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1996. He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute–NIH Research Scholar from 1993 to 1995. He then completed a residency in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (1999) and then a fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine and Interventional Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), which included a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Center for Molecular Imaging Research (CMIR) at MGH. In 2003, Dr. Jaffer joined the MGH Cardiology Division as a faculty member. In 2012, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. In 2024, he was promoted to Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Jaffer’s main area of research interest is in developing translational molecular imaging approaches to investigate inflammation in vascular biology in living subjects. His laboratory has partnered with leading engineering groups to develop translatable intravascular near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) molecular imaging approaches, and has performed the first human studies of intracoronary OCT-NIRF imaging of CAD. In venous thrombosis, his laboratory has shown the importance of timely restoration of blood flow to reduce the post-thrombotic syndrome, and has developed new inflammation imaging approaches and therapeutic strategies to improve DVT resolution and the post-thrombotic syndrome. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed basic, translational, and clinical journals with over 300 Pubmed articles. His laboratory is supported by R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health with specific funding to perform the first NIRF-OCT molecular inflammation imaging studies in CAD patients.