Stephen Cohen

Biography

 Professor Stephen Cohen received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He did post-doctoral work at the Whitehead Institute at MIT and later at the Max Planck Institute in Tübigen Germany, where he began his studies on Drosophila developmental genetics. He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Assistant Investigator at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas, before moving to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in 1993. In 1996, he became Head of the Developmental Biology Unit at EMBL and was elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization. In 2007 he moved to Singapore to assume the position of Executive Director at the Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory. In 2008 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.  Professor Cohen helmed IMCB’s smooth transition into A*STAR’s RIE2015 funding tranche. He played a pivotal role in the development of the A*STAR Molecular Pathology Laboratory (AMPL) as well as in IMCB’s engagement with several industrial partners

Research Interest

Geneticsand Molecular Biology