Robert T. Abraham PhD

Robert Abraham earned his PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1981. He trained as a postdoctoral fellow in pharmacology and immunology at the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation in Rochester, Minnesota, where he was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1986 and Associate Professor in 1992. In 1997, Dr. Abraham joined the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University Medical Center, where, in 1999, he was appointed Glaxo-Wellcome Professor of Molecular Cancer Biology. Dr. Abraham was recruited to Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Research Institute in 2001 to found and direct the Institute’s Signal Transduction Program. He served as Director of the Institute’s NCI-Designated Cancer Center from 2002–2005, at which time he was recruited to Wyeth Laboratories to direct their cancer drug discovery program. Dr. Abraham maintains collaboration with Sanford Burnham Prebys as an Adjunct Professor.