Professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, United States
Noam A. Cohen, MD, PhD, is the Ralph Butler Professor of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and director of Rhinology Research at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also an adjunct member of the Monell Chemical Senses Center and a staff surgeon at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.
Dr. Cohen’s research interests include host-microbe interactions in the upper airway with an emphasis on sinonasal innate defenses focusing on airway taste receptors and mucociliary clearance, microbial biofilms, solitary chemosensory cells (aka tuft cells), and the development of novel sinonasal topical antimicrobial therapies.
His current efforts focus on correlating the genetics of bitter taste receptor functionality in the context of chronic rhinosinusitis and the therapeutic implications of stimulating sinonasal bitter taste receptors, using bitter tastants, to activate production of local nitric oxide or release of antimicrobial peptides as alternatives for conventional antibiotics in the management of acute and chronic sinus infections.
Dr. Cohen obtained his medical degree and doctorate degree in neuroscience from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He then completed a general surgery internship, a residency in otorhinolaryngology, and a fellowship in rhinology and skull base surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
H. Bryan Neel III, MD, PhD Distinguished Research Lecture - Noam A. Cohen M.D., Ph.D.
Sunday, September 29, 2024
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
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