Our Team: Steve W. Cole, Ph.D.
Steve W. Cole, Ph.D.
Vice President, Research
Dr. Cole designs HopeLab’s research programs and oversees the HopeLab research staff as they conduct formative studies on product design and summative studies gauging product impact. He is charged with identifying new scientific opportunities and ensuring that HopeLab’s interventions are based on the latest medical and psychological information available.
Dr. Cole also serves as an Associate Professor in the Division of Hematology-Oncology at the UCLA School of Medicine. His research examines how social factors regulate gene expression in human, viral, and tumor genomes. He is an associate member of the Norman Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute, and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Cole also serves as a consultant to the National Cancer Institute’s Basic and Biobehavioral Research Branch, and serves on the Editorial Board of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society journal, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
After receiving his Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1992, Dr. Cole completed an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Psychology at UCLA, and a Norman Cousins Fellowship in Molecular Virology at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society, and the American Statistical Association. Dr. Cole has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific publications, and his laboratory research is supported by grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Cancer Institute.