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Jeffrey I. Cohen, MD

Chief, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases
Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, United States

Dr. Cohen received his M.D. from The Johns Hopkins University and was a resident in medicine at Duke University. Following a medical staff fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), he was a clinical fellow in infectious diseases at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor in medicine at Harvard University. He returned to NIH, where he is Chief of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases. His laboratory studies the pathogenesis and clinical aspects of human herpesviruses, including Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), herpes simplex virus (HSV), and varicella-zoster virus. The laboratory focuses on vaccine development, discovery of monoclonal antibodies to viral proteins, and identification of cellular mutations in patients with severe herpesvirus infections. Recent findings include development of candidate vaccines for HSV and EBV; identification of cellular genes that predispose to severe EBV infections; and monoclonal antibodies to EBV. Clinical projects complement the laboratory studies. These include a phase I study of an EBV nanoparticle vaccine, studies of patients with severe virus infections to define genetic variants associated with the disease, studies of patients with chronic active EBV disease. He is an associate editor of Fields Virology and a Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

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