Dale Abrahamson

Dale R. Abrahamson, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in Biology at the University of Virginia in 1981. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and then joined the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (1983-1998), where he rose to the rank of Professor. Dr. Abrahamson relocated to the University of Kansas Medical Center in 1998 to become Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology.

Among his honors and awards, Dr. Abrahamson has been an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association and he received a MERIT Award from the NIDDK/NIH (1993-2003). At KUMC, Dr. Abrahamson is one of the co-Founders of the Jared Grantham Kidney Institute. Dr. Abrahamson was also PI of a NIGMS/NIH COBRE grant for 15 years that provided funds for hiring over 10 new faculty, granting numerous pilot research projects in developmental biology, and supporting multiple scientific core facilities at KUMC. He received the Chancellors Research Award (2005), Dolph Simons Award for Biomedical Research (Higuchi – Kansas University Endowment Association; 2005), and is currently University Distinguished Professor. In 2019, he received the “Jayhawk Award” for Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring.

Read more about Dale Abrahamson on the KU Medical Center website.