University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Abbas received his MD from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in India, completed training in Pathology at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard and joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he rose to become Professor of Pathology and Head of the Immunology Research Division. In 1999, he moved to the University of California San Francisco as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology, and served in this role until 2018. Dr. Abbas has received several teaching awards at Harvard and UCSF, and numerous honors, including election to the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences) and as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research interest is the control of immune responses, self-tolerance and autoimmunity. He has published more than 200 peer reviewed papers and invited reviews, and is an author of two widely used textbooks of Immunology, as well as Robbins & Cotran’s Pathologic Basis of Disease.
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Basic Immunology in Medicine Course (Separate Registration Required)
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
8:00 AM – 5:15 PM PT
