Max Cohen, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

I'm a pulmonary & critical care physician, specializing in diseases of the lung alveolus, such as Interstitial Lung Diseases (especially Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis) and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training UCSF 2022
• Fellowship Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine UCSF 2021
• Residency Internal Medicine University of Washington 2018
• MD Medicine University of Colorado 2015
• PhD Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology University of Colorado 2013
• BS Physics, Biology MIT 2005

Interests

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• Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
• Epithelial-Mesenchymal Interactions
• Stem Cells
• Interstitial Lung Disease
• Lung Biology

Grants and Projects

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• Functions of Branched-Chain Fatty Acids in the Nematode Worm C. elegans, NIH, 2010-2012
• Reprogramming of type 2 alveolar epithelial cells in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and regulation by TGFb1., NIH, 2021-1900

Publications (8)

Top publication keywords:
Transforming Growth Factor beta1Caenorhabditis elegans ProteinsKeratin-5Cell TransdifferentiationIdiopathic Pulmonary FibrosisCollagen Type ICell DifferentiationPulmonary AlveoliAmino Acid OxidoreductasesCaenorhabditis elegansTranscription, GeneticRespiratory MucosaMicroRNAsAngiopoietin-2GATA Transcription Factors

• A fibroblast-dependent TGFβ1/sFRP2 noncanonical Wnt signaling axis underlies epithelial metaplasia in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Cohen ML, Brumwell AN, Che Ho T, Montas G, Golden JA, Jones KD, Wolters PJ, Wei Y, Chapman HA, Le Saux CJ
• Human alveolar type 2 epithelium transdifferentiates into metaplastic KRT5+ basal cells.
  Nature cell biology 2021 Kathiriya JJ, Wang C, Zhou M, Brumwell A, Cassandras M, Le Saux CJ, Cohen M, Alysandratos KD, Wang B, Wolters P, Matthay M, Kotton DN, Chapman HA, Peng T
• Blocking LOXL2 and TGFβ1 signalling induces collagen I turnover in precision-cut lung slices derived from patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
  Thorax 2021 Wei Y, Dong W, Jackson J, Ho TC, Le Saux CJ, Brumwell A, Li X, Klesney-Tait J, Cohen ML, Wolters PJ, Chapman HA
• Genetic variation implicates plasma angiopoietin-2 in the development of acute kidney injury sub-phenotypes.
  BMC nephrology 2020 Bhatraju PK, Cohen M, Nagao RJ, Morrell ED, Kosamo S, Chai XY, Nance R, Dmyterko V, Delaney J, Christie JD, Liu KD, Mikacenic C, Gharib SA, Liles WC, Zheng Y, Christiani DC, Himmelfarb J, Wurfel MM
• Interaction Between Epithelial and Mesenchymal Cells in Interstitial Lung Disease
  Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine, Second Edition 2020 Max L Cohen, Paul J Wolters
• Lung Herniation: An Unusual Cause of Chest Pain
  Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care 2015 Cohen ML, Rayamajhi S, Kurche JS, Welsh CH
• The GATA factor elt-1 regulates C. elegans developmental timing by promoting expression of the let-7 family microRNAs.
  PLoS genetics 2015 Cohen ML, Kim S, Morita K, Kim SH, Han M
• The tumor suppressor Rb critically regulates starvation-induced stress response in C. elegans.
  Current biology : CB 2013 Cui M, Cohen ML, Teng C, Han M