{"id":20425,"date":"2026-05-07T12:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/?p=20425"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:57:23","slug":"myron-s-cohen-awarded-2026-faculty-award-for-global-excellence-from-unc-global-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/2026\/05\/myron-s-cohen-awarded-2026-faculty-award-for-global-excellence-from-unc-global-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Myron S. Cohen Awarded 2026 Faculty Award for Global Excellence from UNC Global Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20426 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2026\/05\/cohen_myron_738x714-300x290.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2026\/05\/cohen_myron_738x714-300x290.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2026\/05\/cohen_myron_738x714-600x580.avif 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2026\/05\/cohen_myron_738x714.avif 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/>Myron S. Cohen, MD, was selected to receive a 2026 Faculty Award for Global Excellence from UNC Global Affairs. The award recognizes UNC faculty members whose contributions advance the University\u2019s \u201cunwavering commitment to excellence as one of the world\u2019s great research universities.\u201d Only three faculty members receive this annual award.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cohen\u2019s 30 years of studies on HIV and leadership in the infectious disease field were among the reasons his peers, staff and students nominated him. Throughout his career, Cohen has authored more than 1,400 publications and accumulated more than 150,000 citations. His federally funded work has also spanned tuberculosis, immunology, cardiovascular disease and cancer. He has received continuous NIH funding for more than 30 years and helped bring more than $100 million in research funding to Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20427 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2026\/05\/Screen-Shot-2026-04-24-at-11.11.37-AM-300x225-1.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2026\/05\/Screen-Shot-2026-04-24-at-11.11.37-AM-300x225-1.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2026\/05\/Screen-Shot-2026-04-24-at-11.11.37-AM-300x225-1-280x210.avif 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cohen is the founding director of the UNC Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases and an associate director of the UNC CFAR.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/global.unc.edu\/news-story\/carolina-celebrates-3-faculty-members-with-awards-in-global-excellence\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myron S. Cohen, MD, was selected to receive a 2026 Faculty Award for Global Excellence from UNC Global Affairs. The award recognizes UNC faculty members whose contributions advance the University\u2019s \u201cunwavering commitment to excellence as one of the world\u2019s great research universities.\u201d Only three faculty members receive this annual award. Dr. Cohen\u2019s 30 years of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/2026\/05\/myron-s-cohen-awarded-2026-faculty-award-for-global-excellence-from-unc-global-affairs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Myron S. Cohen Awarded 2026 Faculty Award for Global Excellence from UNC Global Affairs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119377,"featured_media":20433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2026\/05\/FAGE-Website-ft.-image.avif","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2026\/05\/FAGE-Website-ft.-image-300x200.avif","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2026\/05\/FAGE-Website-ft.-image-768x512.avif","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2026\/05\/FAGE-Website-ft.-image-1024x683.avif","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2026\/05\/FAGE-Website-ft.-image-150x150.avif","featured_image_alt":"","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20425"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20434,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20425\/revisions\/20434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}