Noah D. Cohen
	Rank	Professor
	Department	Large Animal Medicine and Surgery
	Phone	(979)845-0741
	Fax	(979)847-8863
	Email Address	ncohen@cvm.tamu.edu
	Distinguished Awards	TVMA Research Award (2000) Pfizer Award for Research Excellence (2001) Texas A&M University Faculty Fellowship (2002)

My principal areas of interest are in equine genetic epidemiology and the epidemiology of equine infectious diseases and equine immunology, with emphasis on pneumonia caused by the bacterium Rhodococcus equi.

Takai S, Chaffin MK, Cohen ND, Hara M, Nakamura M, Kakuda T, Sasaki Y, Stubaki S, Martens R. Prevalence of virulent Rhodococcus equi in soil from 5 R. equi-endemic horse-breeding farms and restriction fragment length polymorphisms of virulence plasmids in isolates from soil and infected foals in Texas. J Vet Diagn Invest 2001;13:489-494.

Arriaga JM, Cohen ND, Derr J, et al. Detection of Rhodococcus equi by polymerase chain reaction using species-specific, non-proprietary primers. J Vet Diagnost Invest 2002;14:347-353.

Boyd NK, Cohen ND, Lim W-S, Martens RJ, Chaffin MK, Ball JM. Temporal changes in cytokine expression of foals during the first month of life. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 2003;92:75-85.

Cohen ND, Harrington J, Gros P, Del Castro L, Meyer D, Martens RJ. Nramp1 deletion does not confer susceptibility to Rhodococcus equi infection in mice. Immunogenetics (In Press)