About Carl M. Cohen
Carl M. Cohen, Ph.D. is President of Science Management Associates and provides coaching, consultation and training in interpersonal, group and organizational skills to scientists and science executives in both the public and private sectors. Carl has more than 30 years of biomedical research and management expertise, including having been Chief Operating Officer of Biovest International focused on cancer immunotherapy and Vice President for Research and Development at Creative BioMolecules. Carl served as Chief of the Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology and Acting Chair of the Department of Biomedical Research at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston. During that same period he also held the positions of Professor of Medicine and Professor of Anatomy and Cellular Biology at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Carl is co-author, with his wife Suzanne L. Cohen, Ed.D., of Lab Dynamics: Management and Leadership Skills for Scientists, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (3rd edition, 2018). Carl has done training and on-site management consulting for Universities, top ten pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies and government agencies both in the US and internationally. He was the founding Director of and ran the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Workshop “Leadership in Bioscience” from 2011 to 2019. Carl did his Ph. D and postdoctoral training at Harvard University.
Dr. Cohen has had a longstanding interest in the management of science and to the application of what has come to be known as "emotional intelligence" to the scientific workplace. He developed and runs a popular series of workshops in group management and conflict resolution skills for working scientists, has received training in group dynamics through the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems and is accredited in the Emotional Competence Inventory through the Hay Group.
Summary of Professional Activities
Science Management Associates
President, 2003 to present
Biovest International, Worcester, MA
Chief Operating Officer, 2004-2007
Acumen Sciences, LLC, Boston, San Francisco, New Jersey
Vice President, Research, 2002-2003
Argose, Inc. Waltham, MA
Senior Director, Research, 2001-2002
Cell Based Delivery, Inc. Providence, RI
Acting Vice President, Research and Development, 2000-2001
Creative BioMolecules, Inc.
Vice President, Research and Development, 1998-2000
Vice President, Research, 1997-1998
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center of Boston
Acting Chairman, Dept. of Biomedical Research, 1996-1997
Chief, Div. Of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Dept. Of Biomedical Research, 1985-1997
Associate Chairman, Dept. of Biomedical Research, 1983-1997
Associate Director, Clinical Hematology Laboratory, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, 1978-1990
Director, Laboratory for Membrane Biochemistry, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, 1978-1997
Tufts University, School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Professor, Dept. of Medicine and Dept. of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, 1991-1998
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, 1982-1991
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, 1978-1982
American Society for Cell Biology
Treasurer, Chair of Finance Committee, Member of the Executive Committee, Member of Council, 1995-2001
Education
Boston University
B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Physics
Harvard University
M.A., Physics.
Harvard University
Ph.D. Physics (Biophysics Research)
Harvard University
NIH Fellow and Research Associate, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Publications
Over 60 original scientific publications, over 100 abstracts, as well as over a dozen reviews and two books edited in the fields of cell biology, protein biochemistry, molecular hematology, signal transduction, and the biology and biochemistry of cytoskeletal-membrane interactions.
Along with his wife Suzanne L. Cohen, a psychologist, Carl is the author of the popular book "Lab Dynamics: Management and Leadership Skills for Scientists" Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, third edition, 2018.
Leadership Development and consulting
Dr. Cohen has had a long-standing interest in issues related to managing scientists in both academic and biotechnology settings. Since 1995 he has developed and presented workshops to train scientists in leadership and management skills. He has consulted to and runs workshops for leading academic institutions, top ten pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the U.S. and internationally, as well as for the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Navy.