John Allen Cooper is an American
biochemist
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. He is a Professor of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biophysics
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and of
Cell Biology
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and
Physiology at
Washington University School of Medicine. He served as head of the university's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics between 2015 and 2020 after leading the department as interim head.
Cooper earned his bachelor's degree in biochemistry ''
magna cum laude
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'' from Brown University in 1977. He received medical and doctoral degrees from
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and
Johns Hopkins University in 1982 and 1983, respectively. He joined Washington University in 1984 as a resident in
anatomic pathology.
In 2017, he became a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Brown University alumni
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Living people
Washington University School of Medicine faculty