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Abul K. Abbas

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Abul K Abbas
ابو ال کے عباس
Born
NationalityIndian American
EducationAll India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School[3]
Known forRobbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease[1]
AwardsElected to Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine, Pathologist, Immunology
InstitutionsUniversity 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

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ a b "A day with Abul Abbas". ysa.meduniwien.ac.at. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b c d "Interview with Professor Abul K. Abbas | Elsevier". Archived from the original on 25 February 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Abul Abbas - UCSF Profiles". profiles.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  5. ^ Kumar, Vinay; Abbas, Abul K. (2015). Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. Philadelphia, Pa.: Elsevier Saunders. ISBN 978-1-4557-2613-4.
  6. ^ Abbas, Abul K. (2014). Basic immunology : functions and disorders of the immune system (Fourth ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Saunders. ISBN 978-1-4557-0707-2.
  7. ^ Abbas, Abul K. (2018). Cellular and molecular immunology (Ninth ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-323-47978-3.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ "CO-EDITORS OF THE ANNUAL REVIEW OF PATHOLOGY: MECHANISMS OF DISEASE - VOLUME 15, 2020". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  11. ^ Abbas, Abul K.; Aster, Jon C. (2020). Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease - 10th Edition (10th ed.). Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-323-53113-9.
  12. ^ Robbins Essential Pathology (1st ed.). 2020.
  13. ^ "2010 ASIP Robbins Distinguished Educator Award". American Society for Investigative Pathology. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2021.