Abul K. Abbas

American pathologist

Abul K Abbas
ابو ال کے عباس
Born	India^[3]
Nationality	Indian American
Education	All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School^[3]
Known for	Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease^[1]
Awards	Elected to Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Medicine, Pathologist, Immunology
Institutions	University of California San Francisco, Harvard Medical School^[2]

Abul K. Abbas (Urdu: ابو ال کے عباس) is an American pathologist at University of California San Francisco where he is Distinguished Professor in Pathology and former chair of its Department of Pathology.^[3]^[2]^[4] He is senior editor of the pathology reference book Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease along with Vinay Kumar,^[5] as well as Basic Immunology,^[6] and Cellular & Molecular Immunology.^[7]^[3] He was editor for Immunity from 1993 to 1996, and continues to serve as a member of the editorial board.^[8] He was one of the inaugural co-editors of the Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease for issues from 2006 to 2020.^[9]^[10] He has published nearly 200 scientific papers.

Selected books

Kumar V, Abbas A, Aster J, editors. Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. 10th Ed. Elsevier 2020. ISBN 978-0-323-53113-9^[11]
Kumar V, Abbas A, Aster J, editors. Robbins Essential Pathology. 1st Ed. Elsevier 2020. ISBN 978-0-323-64025-1^[12]

Awards and honors

2021: ASIP Gold-Headed Cane Award, American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP)^[8]
2010: ASIP Robbins Distinguished Educator Award, ASIP^[13]

References

^ ^a ^b "A day with Abul Abbas". ysa.meduniwien.ac.at. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
^ ^a ^b California, The Regents of the University of. "UCSF Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - About - Faculty - Abul K. Abbas, MBBS". www.pathology.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Interview with Professor Abul K. Abbas | Elsevier". Archived from the original on 25 February 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
^ "Abul Abbas - UCSF Profiles". profiles.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
^ Kumar, Vinay; Abbas, Abul K. (2015). Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. Philadelphia, Pa.: Elsevier Saunders. ISBN 978-1-4557-2613-4.
^ Abbas, Abul K. (2014). Basic immunology : functions and disorders of the immune system (Fourth ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Saunders. ISBN 978-1-4557-0707-2.
^ Abbas, Abul K. (2018). Cellular and molecular immunology (Ninth ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-323-47978-3.
^ ^a ^b "ASIP Gold-Headed Cane Award – Abul K. Abbas, MBBS - PathWays". American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP). 7 May 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
^ "Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease. Volume 1: 2006. Edited by Abul K Abbas, James R Downing, and , Vinay Kumar. Palo Alto (California): Annual Reviews. $55.00. Xii + 552 p; ill.; subject index. ISBN: 0‐8243‐4301‐8. 2006". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 81 (3): 314. 2006. doi:10.1086/509485.
^ "CO-EDITORS OF THE ANNUAL REVIEW OF PATHOLOGY: MECHANISMS OF DISEASE - VOLUME 15, 2020". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
^ Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease - 10th Edition (10th ed.). 2020.
^ Robbins Essential Pathology (1st ed.). 2020.
^ "2010 ASIP Robbins Distinguished Educator Award". American Society for Investigative Pathology. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2021.