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Pinchas Cohen, MD |
| Dr. Cohen graduated with highest honors in 1986 from the Technion Medical School in Israel, and trained in Pediatrics, Endocrinology and Diabetes at Stanford University until 1992. He was until 1998 an Associate Professor and Program Director at the University of Pennsylvania & Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is currently a Professor and Chief of Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology at UCLA and the associate director of the UCSD/UCLA Diabetes/Endocrinology Research Center. He was inducted into both the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society. He is the recipient of Juvenile Diabetes Association, American Diabetes Association, Pediatric Diabetes & Endocrinology Society, Eli Lilly, CaPCURE, & Ross awards, and most recently, the American Pediatric Society Best Science Award. Dr. Cohen published over 250 papers focusing on diabetes, growth disorders, cancer, aging, GH/IGF biology and the emerging science of humanin and other mitochondrial peptides. He received grants from the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, the Juvenile Diabetes Association, and the American Diabetes Association. Recently, he received two prestigious "roadmap awards": a EUREKA-RO1 grant and an NIH-Director Transformative-RO1 Award. His editorial services include being an associate editor of Pediatric Research and a member of the editorial boards of JCEM and Endocrinology as well as being an executive officer of the GH Research society, the IGF society the and Endocrine Society Steering Committee. |
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