Education
Ph.D., Physiology, University of Minnesota, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, 2025
Thesis: · Investigation of membrane stabilizing copolymers as early therapy for muscular dystrophy
Advisor: Joseph Metzger, PhD
MD, University of Hassan II Medical School, Casablanca, Morocco
Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah University Medical School, Fez, Morocco
Awards
- Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2024-2025 (UMN)
- Greg Marzolf Jr. Symposium Poster Award 2025 (1st place in the Graduate Students & Medical Students category)
- MD Center Bioinformatics Analysis Grant , 2024
- NIA T32 Functional proteomics of aging Trainee 2020-2022
- MIBI on the Horizon Pilot Grant, 2021-2022
- Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, 2019 (UMN Medical School)
Publications
Synthetic Bottlebrush Macromolecules Potently Block Muscular Dystrophy Necrotic Disease Onset. Cohen, H., Angulski, A. B., Quick, J., Kuebler, T., Thompson, B. R., Bauer, J., Hahn, D., Townsend, D., Hassler, J., Hackel, B. J., Lodge, T. P., Sham, Y., Bates, F. S., & Metzger, J. M. Under peer review (2025)
Effects of Chemical-based Membrane Stabilization Treatment on Immune Cell Accumulation in Mdx Skeletal Muscle Prior to Muscle Necrosis Onset In Vivo. Cohen, H., Carlson, M., Fredrickson, G., Barrow, F., Revelo, X., & Metzger, J. M. manuscript in preparation.
Biaxial Length-Tension Relationship in Single Cardiac Myocytes. Rothermel, T. M., Cohen, H., Grosberg, A., Metzger, J. M., & Alford, P. W. Under peer review (2025)
Shrunken heart cardiomyopathy and failure emerge in cancer remission. Cohen, H., Martin, A. A., Hosny, N., Hiukka, B., Bauer, J., Law, M., Martindale, J. (in memoriam), Hahn, D., Thompson, B., & Metzger, J. M. Under peer review (2025)
Duchenne muscular dystrophy: disease mechanism and therapeutic strategies. Bez Batti Angulski, A., Hosny, N., Cohen, H., Martin, A. A., Hahn, D., Bauer, J., & Metzger, J. M. (2023). Frontiers in Physiology
Cardiac Sarcomere Signaling in Health and Disease. Martin, A. A., Thompson, B. R., Hahn, D., Angulski, A. B. B., Hosny, N., Cohen, H., & Metzger, J. M. (2022). International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Molecular homing and retention of muscle membrane stabilizing copolymers by non-invasive optical imaging in vivo. Batti Angulski, A. B., Cohen, H., Kim, M., Hahn, D., Van Zee, N., Lodge, T. P., Hillmyer, M. A., Hackel, B. J., Bates, F. S., & Metzger, J. M. (2022). Molecular therapy. Methods & Clinical Development (co-first author)
Oxidative stress pathogenically remodels the cardiac myocyte cytoskeleton via structural alterations to the microtubule lattice. Goldblum R. R., McClellan M., White K., Gonzalez S.J., Thompson B. R., Vang H. X., Cohen H., Higgins L., Markowski T. W., Tzu-Yi Yang, Metzger J. M., Gardner M. K., Developmental Cell, 2021 Aug 2
Analysis Of An Inducible Intact Dystrophin Gene Excision System In Cardiac And Skeletal Muscle In Vivo. Angulski A. B. B., Bauer J., Cohen H., Kobuke K., Campbell K.P., Metzger J.M. Scientific Reports 2020
Dysregulation of Calcium Handling in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy-Associated Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Mechanisms and Experimental Therapeutic Strategies. Law, M.L.; Cohen, H.; Martin, A.A.; Angulski, A.B.B.; Metzger, J.M. J. Clin. Med. 2020, 9, 520. Journal of Clinical Medicine 2020;9(2):520. Published 2020 Feb 14
Gene Transfer of Calcium-Binding Proteins into Adult Cardiac Myocytes. Thompson B.R., Cohen H., Angulski A.B.B., Metzger J.M. (2019). Methods Mol Biol