Adam Cohen is a Professor in the departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Physics at Harvard, with additional appointments in the Center for Brain Science and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. He is also an investigator with the Howard Hughes ADAM COHEN
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Medical Institute. His research focuses on understanding and controlling light-matter interactions in warm, wet, squishy environments. Projects in the Cohen Lab range from new approaches to imaging brain function, to understanding fundamental quantum mechanics of light-matter interactions, to studies on the biophysics of mucus. In 2007, Technology Review Magazine named Cohen one of the top 35 US technological innovators under the age of 35, and in 2012, Popular Science named him one of their “Brilliant Ten” top young scientists. He has published over fifty peer-reviewed publications and has five patents issued or pending. In addition to his academic work, Cohen has founded a biotech company, Q-State Biosciences, focused on combining optical imaging with stem cell technology to develop new diagnostics and therapies for neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases. He has also traveled to Liberia where he worked on strengthening science education at the University of Liberia.