Dr.Stanley Cohen is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the UMDNJ New Jersey Medical School.  He is responsible for the scientific, educational, and clinical activities of the Department.  His major area of research is the role of cytokines in the regulation of cell proliferation with specific attention to neoplastic disease.  His clinical interests relate to the application of state-of-the-art methodologies in molecular pathology and bioimaging for the provision of therapeutic and prognostic information to clinicians as an adjunct to traditional morphologic analysis.

He is currently working towards the establishment of telepathology via virtual microscopy for clinical interactions within the University Hospital as a model for the ultimate extension to the entire UMDNJ hospital community as well as the emerging Cancer Center at NJMS.   Dr. Cohen has served as a Member of the Center for Theoretical Biology at SUNY Buffalo and participated on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Theoretical Biology.

He has published several articles in mathematical biology. More recently he was a member of the Core Planning Faculty of the Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Program at Hahnemann University.  He served as a reviewer for the Science and Technology Foundation of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Lisbon, Portugal in 2002.