Abul K. Abbas

Abul K. Abbas (Urdu: ابو ال کے عباس born 1 June 1947) is an Indian born-American pathologist at University of California San Francisco where he is Distinguished Professor in Pathology and former chair of its Department of Pathology.^[1][3][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][1] 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.

Abul K Abbas
ابو ال کے عباس
Born	01 June 1947 (age 77) India[1]
Nationality	Indian American
Education	All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School[1]
Known for	Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease[2]
Awards	Elected to Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences[2]
Scientific career
Fields	Medicine, Pathologist, Immunology
Institutions	University of California San Francisco, Harvard Medical School[3]

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]