Elisha A Cohen

About

Elisha A Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Illinois. His research focuses on issues related to police social sciences, including police racial bias in decision-making, the impact of officer-involved shootings on citizen-government contact, and the effects of federal funding and military equipment on crime reduction. His work involves analyzing the decision to shoot by police officers, examining racial biases, and exploring the broader implications of police practices and federal grants on community safety and police behavior. Cohen's scholarly contributions include peer-reviewed articles published in reputable journals such as the Journal of Politics and Nature Human Behaviour, highlighting his active engagement in empirical research on policing and public policy.

Research topics

• Biology
• Computational biology
• Microbiology
• Medicine
• Immunology
• Biochemistry

Selected publications

• The Athenian Nation

  Princeton University Press eBooks · 2009-12-31 · 252 citations

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  Challenging the modern assumption that ancient Athens is best understood as a polis , Edward Cohen boldly recasts our understanding of Athenian political and social life. Cohen demonstrates that ancient sources referred to Athens not only as a polis , but also as a "nation" ( ethnos ), and that Athens did encompass the characteristics now used to identify a "nation." He argues that in Athens economic, religious, sexual, and social dimensions were no less significant than political and juridical…

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• Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetase–Interacting Multifunctional Protein 1 Activates NK Cells via Macrophages In Vitro and In Vivo

  The Journal of Immunology · 2017-04-06 · 21 citations

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  Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase-interacting multifunctional protein 1 (AIMP1) has been reported to have antitumor effects in various tumor models. However, mechanisms by which AIMP1 ameliorates tumorigenesis are not well understood. As NK cells are a major cell type involved in antitumor activities and AIMP1 is known to activate professional APCs, we determined whether AIMP1 induced NK cell activation directly or via these APCs. AIMP1 induced the expression of surface activation markers on murine NK c…

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• Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase-interacting multifunctional protein 1 suppresses tumor growth in breast cancer-bearing mice by negatively regulating myeloid-derived suppressor cell functions

  Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy · 2015-11-27 · 21 citations

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• Enhancing Cellular Cancer Vaccines

  Immunotherapy · 2009-04-24 · 13 citations

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  Various strategies have been used to generate cellular cancer vaccines with the expectation that they will become an effective part of the overall management of cancer patients. However, with few notable exceptions, immunization has not resulted in significant long-term therapeutic benefits. Tumor growth has continued and patient survival has been at best only modestly prolonged. One possible explanation is that as only a small proportion of the constituents of malignant cells are "tumor specifi…

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• Immunity to Growth Factor Receptor–Bound Protein 10, a Signal Transduction Molecule, Inhibits the Growth of Breast Cancer in Mice

  Cancer Research · 2008-04-01 · 13 citations

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  This study describes the application of a unique strategy to identify breast cancer antigens [tumor-associated antigen (TAA)]. In a mouse model, the strategy led to the identification of growth factor receptor-bound protein 10 (Grb10) as a newly identified TAA. Grb10 is a signal transduction molecule associated with multiple transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptors. It was discovered by comparing microarrays of cellular breast cancer vaccines highly enriched for cells that induced breast cancer i…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01CA055651

  NIH · $400k · 1995

• NIH Grant R01DE013970

  NIH · $1.1M · 2007

Frequent coauthors

• Terry Lichtor

  Neurological Surgery

  96 shared

• Roberta P. Glick

  89 shared

• InSug O‐Sullivan

  University of Illinois Chicago

  74 shared

• Tae Sung Kim

  Kyungpook National University

  51 shared

• Weitze Liang

  45 shared

• Amla Chopra

  41 shared

• Catherine A. Taylor

  Atlantic Cancer Research Institute

  25 shared

• Asma Mogharbel

  John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County

  25 shared

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