Philip Cohen (biochemist)
Sir Philip Cohen (born July 22, 1945 in Middlesex ) is a British biochemist and professor at the University of Dundee .
Cohen studied at University College London with a bachelor's degree in 1966 and a doctorate with Michael Rosemeyer in 1969. As a post-doctoral student he was with Edmond Fischer at the University of Washington . In 1971 he became a Lecturer at the University of Dundee, Reader in 1979 and Professor (of Enzymology) in 1981. From 1984 to 2010 he was Royal Society Research Professor. From 1990 to 2012 he was Director of the Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit of the Medical Research Council, and from 1998 to 2012 he was Co-Director (and then Deputy Director) of the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT), a collaboration between university and pharmaceutical companies.
In 2008 he founded the Scottish Institute of Cell Signaling (SCILLS) in Dundee, of which he was director until 2012. Through his research, he built Dundee into a biotechnology center in the UK.
In 2014 he received the Albert Einstein World Award of Science . Its role in decoding the insulin signaling pathway was highlighted. He was responsible for the uncovering of the role of protein kinases and phosphorylation in signal transmission in cells (for the discovery of which his former teacher Edmond Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs received the Nobel Prize in 1992). Currently (2016) he is researching the signaling pathways of the innate immune system and the interplay between phosphorylation and ubiquitination there .
In 1977 he received the Biochemical Society's award for young talent, the Colworth Medal. In 1997 he received the Louis Jeantet Prize , in 1999 the Pfizer Innovation Award for Europe, in 2006 the Rolf Luft Award from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, in 2008 the Royal Medal from the Royal Society and in 2013 the Millennium Medal from the Medical Research Council. From 1992 to 2003 he was one of the most cited scientists in biology and biochemistry after Thomson Scientific (and was the most cited British scientist). He is a member of the Academia Europaea and the National Academy of Sciences , Fellow of the Royal Society (1984), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1984), the EMBO (1982) and the Academy of Medical Sciences (as a founding member). In 1993 he became a Fellow of University College London and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. In 1998 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor . He has multiple honorary doctorates (Strathclyde, Linköping, Debrecen, Abertay).
He was president of the Biochemical Society.
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| SURNAME | Cohen, Philip |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Middlesex |