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Myron S Cohen, MD
 | J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine and |
CONTACT INFORMATION
| Phone: 919-966-2536 Fax: 919-966-6714 Email: myron_cohen@med.unc.edu Division of Infectious Diseases CB# 7030, Bioinformatics Building 130 Mason Farm Road, 2nd Floor Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7030 |
EDUCATION
| M.D., Rush Medical College, 1974 |
BOARD CERTIFICATIONS
| Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine, 1977 Diplomate, Subspecialty of Infectious Disease, 1982 |
CLINICAL INTERESTS
| Biology and epidemiology of transmission of STD pathogens, including HIV |
RESEARCH SUMMARY
| Dr. Cohen’s research work focuses on the transmission and prevention of transmission of STD pathogens including HIV. Much of his work has been conducted at the research site he and his group have developed in Lilongwe, Malawi and Beijing, China. Dr. Cohen and his coworkers have identified the concentration of HIV in genital secretions required for transmission of HIV ( NEJM 336:1072, 1997; AIDS 15: 621, 2001), the effects of genital tract inflammation on HIV (Lancet 349: 1868, 1997). |
PUBLICATIONS
| Search the publications on PubMed using Cohen+M* as search criteria. |