Dr. Rafii received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Cornell University and his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He has been funded by multiple grants from the Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Tumor Microenvironment Study Section at the National Cancer Institute. He is also an American Cancer Society scholar and a translational researcher at the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.