Background
Cohen, Philip was born on July 22, 1945 in London. Son of Jacob Davis and Fanny (Bragman) Cohen.
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The student of biological science in his final years as an undergraduate and his first years as a graduate is expected to gain some familiarity with current research at the frontiers of his discipline. New research work is published in a perplexing diversity of publications and is inevitably concerned with the minutiae of the subject. The sheer number of research journals and papers also causes confusion and difficulties of assimilation. Review articles usually presuppose a background knowledge of the field and are inevitably rather restricted in scope. There is thus a need for short but authoritative introductions to those areas of modern biological research which are either not dealt with in standard introductory textbooks or are not dealt with in sufficient detail to enable the student to go on from them to read scholarly reviews with profit. This series of books is designed to satisfy this need. The authors have been asked to produce a brief outline of their subject assuming that their readers will have read and remembered much of a standard introductory textbook of biology.
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Cohen, Philip was born on July 22, 1945 in London. Son of Jacob Davis and Fanny (Bragman) Cohen.
Bachelor of Science, U College, London, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, U College, London, 1969. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Abertay, 1998.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Strathclyde, 1999. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Debrecen, 2004. Doctor of Science (honorary), University St Andrews, 2005.
Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Linkoping, 2004. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Dundee, 2007.
During the 1990s he was Britain"s third most cited professor (and the second most cited in the fields of biology and biochemistry) and has been described by Professor Garry Taylor of the University of Street Andrews as "one of the world’s top scientists". and by Professor Peter Downes as "arguably the United Kingdom"s leading biochemist and an iconic figure in United Kingdom science". As of 2008 he has written over 470 peer-reviewed papers and given over 250 invited lectures in 33 countries, and has been repeatedly linked to a move of biotechnology companies to Dundee and the economic regeneration that came with it, to the point where 15% of the local economy is derived from biotech companies and their employees. His work has also seen Dundee attracting some of the world"s best scientists, with over 1% of the world"s most cited scientists residing in Dundee and fundraising of more than £35 million over the last 10 years to help attract them.
He was born in Middlesex, and after leaving Hendon County Grammar School he attended University College London, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science in 1966 with first class honours and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1969 under Michael Rosemeyer.
After leaving University College London he spent two years at the University of Washington doing postgraduate work with Edmond H. Fischer before returning to Britain in 1971 to become a lecturer at the University of Dundee, where he has remained for the last 37 years. He was made a reader in 1978 and gained a personal chair in 1981.
In 1982 he was made a fellow of the European Molecular Biology Organization, and in 1984 he became a Royal Society Research professor and elected a fellow of both the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Royal Society. In 1990 he was made Director of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit, and a fellow of the Academia Europaea.
In 2006 it was announced that Sir Philip Cohen would be taking over as president of the Biochemical Society.
He is currently a director of the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy.
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Fellow Academy Medical Sciences, Royal Society London (elected 1984, Croonian lecturer 1998, Royal medal 2008), Royal Society Edinburgh (elected 1984, Bruce Preller prize 1993, Royal medal 2004), Royal College Pathologists (honorary), British Bio-chemical Society (honorary president 2006-2008), Foregn Associate United States National Academy of Sciences (elected 2008). Mem European Molecular Biology Organization, (elected 1982), American Society Toxicology(honorary).
Married Patricia Townsend Wade, February 17, 1969. Children: Emma Suzanne, Simon Daniel.