Speaker

Dr. Paul Cohen is the Albert Resnick, MD Associate Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Metabolism, and Senior Attending Physician at the Rockefeller University. He is also a cardiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is a graduate of the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, where he did his PhD research at Rockefeller studying the unique metabolic effects of the hormone, leptin. He then completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Columbia and a Cardiology Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He performed postdoctoral research training at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute studying transcriptional determinants of adipocyte identity. Dr. Cohen joined the faculty at Rockefeller in 2015. His lab focuses on understanding the molecular links between obesity and associated diseases with a particular focus on diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.

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