Queens College, City University of New York Harvard University Harvard Medical School New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center Steven J. Burakoff is a cancer specialist and the author of both Therapeutic Immunology (2001) and Graft-Vs.-Host Disease: Immunology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment (1990).
He served as Director of The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai (2007-2017), which was created in 2007 to focus on translational medicine.
[3][4] Before joining Mount Sinai, he was recruited by New York University School of Medicine to revitalize the research and treatment mission of NYU's Cancer Institute, which during his tenure experienced a 31 percent growth and a 50 percent increase in funding from the National Cancer Institute.
He has received 84 grants as of 2020[6] in fields related to core administration, cancer, T-Cell activation and regulation, as well as various immunological studies.
His brother, Robert Burakoff, is a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA.