Daniel H. Cohn is a research scientist and Co-Director of the International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He is also Professor of Human Genetics and Pediatrics in the Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Dr. Cohn has conducted research on the molecular basis of a diverse group of skeletal dysplasias, including osteogenesis imperfecta, the type II collagenopathies, pseudoachondroplasia, multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, disorders of the sulfation pathway and Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen dysplasia.
He received the Cedars-Sinai Research Institute Young Investigator Award in 1993 and a Cedars-Sinai Medical Center President's Award in 1996.

Dr. Cohn has written more than 110 articles for such publications as the American Journal of Human Genetics, Human Molecular Genetics, Nature Genetics, Genomics, Matrix Biology, Pediatric Radiology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Gene and the Journal of Medical Genetics.

Dr. Cohn earned his bachelor's degree from University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned his doctorate degree from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego, where he received both the Martin Kamen Award for the Outstanding Thesis in Biochemistry and the Eckhart Prize for the Outstanding Thesis in Oceanography. Dr. Cohn was also a senior fellow and a National Institutes of Health Individual postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pathology at University of Washington, Seattle.