Jonathan S. Duke-Cohan

Dr. Duke-Cohan is a molecular and cellular biologist/immunologist with a strong background in scientific computing – beginning in 1976 with programming in Fortran IV using IBM punched card decks on a DEC PDP-11 (!). Following an initial double major degree in Biochemistry/Physiology and a PhD in Experimental Hematology from the University of London (UK), he undertook postdoctoral and junior faculty positions in Canada and Israel before coming to work at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston in 1989, where he remains today, holding the position of Principal Research Scientist in addition to a Faculty position as Principal Associate in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research investigating the development, function and pathology of the immune system has been published in high profile scientific journals including Nature, Nature Genetics, Science, Science Signaling and Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (USA).

He received a postgraduate certificate in Software Engineering from Harvard University (with a focus on C++ programming and logical analysis), he has served as reviewer and editor for several journals (currently Frontiers in Bioscience), and he has an ongoing position as Visiting Professor in the 1st Faculty of Medicine at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, where he contributes to a Postgraduate course in the molecular mechanisms of etiology and the pathogenesis and therapy of diseases. Since 2012, he has been teaching in the Department of Computer Science at BU Metropolitan College.