John Coffin

Coffin, Mary Kearney, and colleagues at the 2019 HIV DRP Think Tank Meeting. John Coffin is an American virologist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, raised in Schenectady, New York, Coffin is a professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University in Boston. He is also the former director of the HIV Dynamics and Replication Program (formerly the Drug Resistance Program) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and serves as special advisor to the director of the Center for Cancer Research at NCI. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1999) and a recipient of American Cancer Society professorship.

Coffin received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University. He performed PhD research with the geneticist Howard Temin at the University of Wisconsin.