Dr. Haffer received his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Veterinary Virology and Immunology. He subsequently completed post-doctoral training at Purdue University, School of Veterinary Medicine in Immunology and infectious diseases of swine. Dr. Haffer then held upper management positions with multi-national veterinary vaccine companies for 14 years, prior to starting his own consulting firm, Advantage Bio Consultants, in 1994.
Dr. Haffer is also co-founder of Braasch Biotech LLC and serves as its President and Chief Scientific Officer. While at Braasch Biotech he has worked extensively on use of Anti-Somatostatin Vaccine for enhancing livestock productivity and therapeutic vaccine treatment of obesity. The work of Dr. Haffer and his co-inventors have resulted in multiple issued US and WO patents on the technology and applications.