Samuel Cohen

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Dr. Cohen graduated with his MD and PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1972, followed by a residency in Pathology at St. Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts, followed by a faculty appointment at the University of Massachusetts Medical School until 1981 when he moved to the University of Nebraska Medical Center as a Professor, where he has been ever since. He also was visiting Professor at Nagoya City University Medical School (Japan) in 1976-1977. He has been actively involved with basic research his entire career and continues as a medical surgical pathologist. His research efforts have focused on chemical carcinogenesis and toxicology, with an emphasis on Mode of Action and Human Relevance frameworks, and investigations of several chemicals, including nitrofurans, aromatic amines, saccharin and other sodium salts, arsenicals, CAR and PPARα activator hepatocarcinogens, various rodent kidney and lung carcinogens, and others. He is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Medical Pathology. He is a fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences and was elected fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science. He has received numerous awards, including the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Toxicological Pathology, the Lehman, Merit, and Founders Awards from the Society of Toxicology and the Barnes Prize from the British Toxicology Society. He has published greater than 500 articles in peer reviewed journals plus more than 50 book chapters. He has served on numerous government advisory panels including the EPA, Health Canada, and IPCS committees on Mode of Action and Human Relevance, and he has consulted, for numerous companies. He has also mentored numerous graduate students and post-doctoral research fellows as well as several pathology residents and fellows.