Michael Zasloff

Michael Zasloff is an American Doctor and Researcher, currently working at Georgetown University.

He is known for his work on innate immunity and antimicrobial peptides including the discovery of magainin from the frog Xenopus laevis He started the pharmaceutical company Magainin Pharmaceuticals. He was Chief of the Genetics Branch of the NIH's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in the 1980s. Currently he is at the Georgetown Transplant Institute of the Department of Surgery. He received his MD and PhD from NYU.