Location Washington, District of Columbia, United States Regions Washington DC Metro Area, Southern US Gender Male
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Jeffrey Cossman, M.D. is the Founder and President of United States Diagnostics Standards, Inc., (USDS) an independent certification body for laboratory and pathology diagnostics. USDS is dedicated to improving the regulatory and commercialization pathways for laboratory diagnostics by verifying the analytical and clinical performance of laboratory
diagnostics.
Dr. Cossman is a pathologist and served as Chairman of the Department of Pathology at Georgetown University and as the Oscar B. Hunter Professor of Pathology at Georgetown.
He founded one of the nation’s first Molecular Diagnostics Laboratories while at the National Cancer Institute, where he developed and implemented lymphoma molecular diagnostic tests now in use worldwide. He has also been Vice President and Medical Director of Gene Logic and Chief Science Officer of the Critical Path Institute. Dr. Cossman is a co-founder of Halcyon Diagnostics, Inc., Avalon Pharmaceuticals (now Clinical Data, Inc.), and the Association for Molecular Pathology.
Dr. Cossman has authored 150 scientific publications including the book, Molecular Genetics in Cancer Diagnosis and has several patents in molecular diagnostics. He received his M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School, is board-certified in pathology and trained in pathology at the University of Michigan, Stanford University and NIH.
