Pinchas Cohen, MD, an award-winning scientist in the aging field, is the Dean of the Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California. Dr. Cohen also holds the William and Sylvia Kugel Dean’s Chair in Gerontology and is the executive director of the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center. He is also serving as President of the Growth Hormone Research Society.

Dr. Cohen was previously at UCLA where he has distinguished himself as an innovative researcher, a successful administrator and an inspiring leader. At the UCLA School of Medicine, Dr. Cohen served as vice chair for research at Mattel’s Children Hospital, and associate director of the UCSD/UCLA Diabetes Center. He has overseen numerous teaching, training, and research activities and has been involved in multiple programs related to diseases of aging, including cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and metabolic disorders.

Dr. Cohen’s research focuses on the emerging field of mitochondrial biology; his team has demonstrated the importance of mitochondrial peptides in aging and longevity. He has published more than 250 papers in top scientific journals and his work has been cited in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. He serves on the boards of several professional journals and societies, including the American Federation for Aging Research and the Growth Hormone Research Society.

Dr. Cohen has received many awards including a National Institute of Aging EUREKA Award, the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Grant, and the Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging. He has received support from a variety of private foundations, including the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and the Friedman Foundation.

Dr. Cohen received his MD degree with highest honors from the Technion School of Medicine in Israel, and was a resident and fellow at Stanford University, after which he spent seven years at the University of Pennsylvania.