Lawrence Baruch Cohen PhD

Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Biographical Info

I pioneered the development and use of optical methods for following, on a large scale, rapid electrical events that underlie brain activity and changes in ion concentration in biological systems. Some contemporary imaging methods of modern neurobiology and cardiac physiology are founded on these developments.

Education & Training

Ph.D.

Columbia University (1965)

Postdoctoeral fellow

Animal Research Council, Institute of Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge

Honors & Recognition

• Elizabeth Roberts Cole Award
  Biophysical Society (1987)
• McMaster Award for Excellence in Teaching
  Columbia University (1965)
• Joseph Erlanger Distinguished Lecturer
  American Physiological Society (1998)
• Cairn Lecturer
  Nottingham University (2009)
• Issekutz Lecturer
  Dalhousie University (2007)