迈伦 S. 科恩, 医学博士—科恩博士是美国北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校耶尔根-贝特杰出医学教授、微生物学、免疫学及流行病学教授。科恩博士以优等成绩获伊利诺伊大学香槟分校学士学位。科恩博士在拉什大学医学院获得医学博士学位。他在密歇根大学完成了内科医生实习,在耶鲁大学完成了传染病专业培训。科恩博士是美国内科医师学会、美国感染病学会、美国临床研究学会及美国医师协会成员。科恩博士任北卡罗来纳大学副校长、传染病系系主任、全球卫生及传染病研究所所长。科恩博士是美国国立卫生研究院艾滋病预防网络项目总负责人。2000年科恩博士获拉什大学医学院杰出校友奖,2005年获美国性病学会性病/艾滋病研究终身成就奖,2008年获北卡罗来纳大学最高荣誉-欧?马克斯?加德纳奖。2013年,获美国感染病学会斯马德尔奖,表彰其在公共卫生方面的贡献;同时获北卡罗来纳州科技贡献奖,该奖项是北卡州最高的市民荣誉。 科恩博士致力于艾滋病毒的传播及预防研究。科恩博士帮助建立了检测艾滋病病毒感染者生殖道分泌物中病毒载量的方法,及建立了筛选可有效抑制艾滋病毒在生殖系统复制的抗病毒药物的方法。科恩博士是HPTN052项目的设计者和项目负责人,该项目证明对艾滋病感染者进行抗逆转录病毒治疗,可有效预防艾滋病经性传播。该研究被科学杂志评为2011年“重大突破”。科恩博士发表了500多篇研究论文及一本学术著作。科恩博士撰写了大量如何预防艾滋病的文章。科恩博士30年来的研究都是在发展中国家进行的,尤其是马拉维和中国。
Myron S. Cohen, M.D. – Dr. Cohen is the Yeargan-Bate Eminent Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology and Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Cohen received his BS degree, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He received an MD degree from Rush Medical College, Chicago Illinois. He completed training in internal medicine at the University of Michigan, and training in infectious diseases at Yale University. Dr. Cohen is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Disease Society of America, and a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the American Association of Physicians. Dr. Cohen serves as the Director of the UNC Division of Infectious Disease and the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and as Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health. Dr. Cohen serves as the co-principal investigator of the NIH HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN).Dr. Cohen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Rush Medical College in 2000. He received the Distinguished Career Award for lifetime achievement in STD/HIV research from the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association in 2005. In 2008 Dr. Cohen received the O. Max Gardner Award, the highest honor in the University of North Carolina System. In 2013 Dr. Cohen received the Smadel Award from the Infectious Disease Society in recognition of his work in public health. Also in 2013, Dr. Cohen received the Award for Science from the State of North Carolina, its highest civilian honor. Dr. Cohen’s research focuses on the transmission and prevention of transmission of HIV. Dr. Cohen helped to develop laboratory methods to measure HIV in genital secretions, as well as methods to determine the best antiviral agents to reduce replication of HIV in these compartments. Dr. Cohen is the architect and Principal Investigator of the multinational HPTN 052 trial, which demonstrated that antiretroviral treatment of people with HIV infection prevents the sexual transmission of the virus. This work was recognized by Science Magazine as the “Breakthrough of the Year” in 2011. Dr. Cohen is the author of more than 500 publications and one book. He has written extensively about the prevention of HIV infection. Much of Dr. Cohen’s research has been conducted over the past three decades in resource constrained countries, especially in Malawi and in the People’s Republic of China.