Dr. D. Walter Cohen
Genetics & Molecular Biology
National Stem Cell Foundation
Australia
Biography
Dr. Cohen attended the University of Pennsylvania and earned his D.D.S. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 1950. Following a research fellowship in pathology and periodontics at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, he returned to Penn. Over the course of a 35-year career, he established the school’s department of periodontics and rose to the position of Dean. Dr. Cohen resigned the Deanship in 1983 and spent a year as the first Presidential Scholar at the University of California at San Francisco. After becoming President of the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1986, Dr. Cohen led the institution’s affiliation with Allegheny Health Education and Research Foundation. In 1993, he became Chancellor of the Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Research Interest
Stem Cell
