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elain sarkin jaffe is a senior national cancer institute -lrb- nci -rrb- investigator at the national institutes of health -lrb- nih -rrb- .
she completed her medical education at cornell university and the university of pennsylvania , receiving her m.d. from university of pennsylvania in 1969 .
after an internship at georgetown university she joined nci as a resident anatomic pathology , and has been a senior investigator since 1974 , focusing on the classification and definition of lymphoid neoplasms .
jaffe 's early work helped to provide a much more depth understanding of the origin of lymphomas , particular her work in follicular lymphomas .
her team notably elucidated the difference between t cell and b cell lymphomas .
her lab 's findings led to the development of the who classification of tumours of the hematopoetic and lymphoid tissues .
jaffe was the president of the society of hematopathology at the time that the who 's revised european-american classification of lymphoid neoplasms -lrb- real -rrb- classification system was developed in 1994 ; the real classification system is now considered the gold standard in hematopathology .
today , her research includes genetic and epigenetic studies aimed at understanding how b-cells become hodgkins lymphoma cells , particularly through the lens of the microenvironment .
jaffe 's research has led to improvements in cancer treatments , including disease-specific therapies and improved clinical outcomes .
