Pinchas Cohen
Dean at USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.
Pinchas Cohen, MD, is the dean of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, executive director of the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, and holder of the William and Sylvia Kugel Dean’s Chair in Gerontology. He is an expert in the study of mitochondrial peptides and their possible therapeutic benefits for diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and other diseases related to aging. Cohen also holds joint appointments at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and in the Department of Biological Sciences at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Cohen’s current research focus is on the emerging science of mitochondria-derived peptides, which he discovered. These peptides include humanin, a 24-amino acid peptide encoded from the mt-16S-rRNA. It is a novel, centrally acting insulin sensitizer and metaboloprotective factor representing a new therapeutic and diagnostic target in diabetes and related disease. Other mitochondrial peptides of interest include MOTS-c, a second peptide encoded from a small ORF in the 12S region of the mitochondrial chromosome that has potent anti-diabetes and anti-obesity effect and acts as an exercise-mimetic, and SHLP2, a peptide encoded from the light strand of the mt-16S-rRNA region whose levels correlate with prostate cancer.
He's also founder of Academy for Health & Lifespan Research.
Visit website: https://gero.usc.edu/faculty/cohen/
See also: University of Southern California (USC) - Private multidisciplinary research university.
Details last updated 07-May-2020
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Academy for Health and Lifespan Research (AHLR)
World's aging researchers unite to accelerate breakthroughs in longevity
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Academy for Health and Lifespan Research (AHLR)
World's aging researchers unite to accelerate breakthroughs in longevity
Extending Human Healthspan and Longevity
19-May-2021
Online webinar focused on longevity extension without health related issues organized by The New York Academy of Sciences with Nir Barzilai and Pinchas Cohen as keynote speakers.
Global Healthspan Summit 2023
29-Nov-2023 to 30-Nov-2023
Longevity summit organised by Hevolution Foundation (Riyadh,Saudi Arabia)
Pinchas Cohen News
Humanin is a regulator peptide of healthspan and lifespan
Science Daily - 24-Jun-2020
Longer life results in less offspring - sounds like the ideal compromise to me!
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