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Dr. Sachs received his A.B. in Chemistry, Summa cum Laude, from Harvard College in 1963, a D.E.S. from the University of Paris in 1964, and his M.D., Magna cum Laude, from Harvard Medical School in 1968. His postdoctoral training included surgical residency at the MGH, followed by fellowships in biochemistry and immunology at the NIH, where he became Chief of the Immunology Branch of the National Cancer Institute and directed a program in transplantation research. In 1991, he returned to the MGH as Director of the Transplantation Biology Research Center and Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. In July 2015, he became Professor of Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center and an Investigator in the Columbia Center for Translational Immunology (CCTI).

Partial List of Honors and Awards
1964 Fulbright Fellowship
1985 Commissioned Officer, PHS, Foreign Duty Award
1996 Elected to Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Member
1998 ASTP Established Investigator Award
2005 AST Distinguished Achievement Award
2006 Docteur Honoris Causa, University of Nantes, France
2009 Martin Prize for Excellence in Clinical Research
2011 2012 Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology
2013 International Xenotransplantation Association Honorary Membership Award 2014 Medawar Prize (awarded by The Transplantation Society)
2014 Dutch Medical Scientific Societies Lifetime Achievement Award