Cohen graduated in 1986 with highest honors from the medical school at Technion in Israel and trained at Stanford University between 1986 and 1992.
[1][2] He served on the advisory board for the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging.
[3] He received numerous awards for his research, including a National Institute of Aging "EUREKA"-Award and the NIH-Director-Transformative R01-Grant.
He also recently received the Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging.
Cohen's research focuses on aging, neurodegeneration, cancer and diabetes with an emphasis on the emerging science of mitochondrial-derived peptides, which he discovered.