Tobias Cohen
Assistant Director Of Transfusion Medicine And Cellular Biotherapies at Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTobias Cohen is a transfusion medicine physician‑scientist and assistant professor with 17 years of experience building clinical services, quality improvement programs, and translational cellular therapies at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork‑Presbyterian. He combines deep virology and MD/PhD research expertise with informatics‑driven clinical redesign to implement novel transfusion technologies and scalable workflows that improve patient care. His recent work spans T‑cell therapy development, laboratory automation, and evidence‑based operational innovation—efforts recognized by awards like ASCP Forty Under 40 and a top prize at the Weill Cornell QI Symposium. Tobias also contributes to open source back‑end projects, applying software and integration skills (notably to Rocket.Chat and python-jose) to bridge clinical and technical systems. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex scientific problems into clear, practical solutions grounded in frontline hospital realities.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Collegiate SchoolScB, Biology (with honors) and Classics, ScB, Biology (with honors) and Classics at Brown UniversityMD/PhD, Microbiology, MD/PhD, Microbiology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Github Skills (14)
chat10
javascript10
jwk10
meteor10
python10
cryptography10
jwt10
rsa9
api-design9
testing9
api9
nodejs9
apim9
realtime8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mpdavis/python-jose
May 2017 - May 2017
A JOSE implementation in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on improving the functionality of the `python-jose` library by implementing features related to handling private keys and JWK (JSON Web Key) serialization. They added support for reading private keys from dictionaries and implemented the `to_dict` function for serializing keys to their JWK representation. The commits also included refactoring and improved testing, focusing on the correct handling of key parameters and edge cases within different backends.
josepythonjwt
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Jul 2016 - Sep 2018
The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 2 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily contributed to the Rocket.Chat Slack bridge integration, improving its functionality and flexibility. They added options to exclude bot messages, include aliases for imported messages, and fixed issues related to bot message propagation. Furthermore, the user modified the outgoing webhook to include alias and bot values. The work involved updates to settings and core logic within the Slack bridge package.
meteordata-protectionchatjavascriptcollaboration
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