Jeffrey Cohen

Jeffrey I. Cohen, MD, is the Chief of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Chief of the Medical Virology Section of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland. His major interest in research is in the pathogenesis of human virus infections in vitro and in vivo, especially herpesviruses such as the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), herpes simplex virus (HSV), varicella-zoster virus (VZV), and cytomegalovirus (CMV).

Dr Cohen is one of the Associate Investigators assigned to the NIH Post-Infectious ME/CFS Study.

Education and training
Dr. Cohen received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University, Maryland and conducted his residency in medicine at Duke University, North Carolina. He had a medical staff fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), then was a clinical fellow in infectious diseases at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor in medicine at Harvard University.

Career
After working in Boston, Dr. Cohen became the chief of the Medical Virology Section in the Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases at NIH. He served in that position until June 2010, when he became chief of NIH's Laboratory of Infectious Diseases.

Notable studies

 * Ongoing - NIH Post-Infectious ME/CFS Study

Online presence

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 * YouTube

Learn more

 * NIH - Jeffrey I Cohen