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Pinchas Cohen

Pinchas Cohen is the dean of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, holds the William and Sylvia Kugel Dean's Chair in Gerontology and serves as the executive director of the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center. He is a USC Distinguished Professor of Gerontology, Medicine, and Biological Sciences.

Cohen graduated in 1986 with highest honors from the medical school at Technion in Israel and trained at Stanford University between 1986 and 1992. He held his first faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania from 1992 to 1999. Until summer 2012, he was a professor and vice chair for research at the Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, as well as the co-director of the UCSD/UCLA Diabetes Research Center. He served on the advisory board for the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging.

Cohen has received numerous awards for his research, including a National Institute on Aging "EUREKA" Award and the NIH Director Transformative R01 Grant. He also received the Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging and the American Federation of Aging Research Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Gerontological Society of America as well as a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors. Provided by Wikipedia