Geoffrey M. Cooper is professor of biology at Boston University. He served as chair of the department of biology for a number of years, and subsequently as associate dean of the faculty for the natural sciences in the university's college of arts & sciences.
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Cooper earned his Ph.D. at the University of Miami in 1973, and was a postdoctoral fellow with nobel laureate, Howard Temin. His work includes cellular growth control, cancer, and signal transduction. More specifically, he focuses on "the roles of proto-oncogene proteins as elements of signal transduction pathways that control proliferation, differentiation, and survival of mammalian cells."[1] He is also the author of the textbook "The Cell".
Cooper’s first novel, a medical thriller titled “The Prize”, was published in January 2018.