Robert Abraham MD, PhD

Dr. Abraham served as Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Oncology Research Unit. Before joining Pfizer, Dr. Abraham was the Vice President of Oncology Research at Wyeth and Co-Chair of the Wyeth Oncology Therapeutic Area Strategic Committee. While at Wyeth, he also served as a member of the Discovery Review Board and the Discovery Executive Committee, and was the Director of the Wyeth Discovery Postdoctoral Training Program.
Before joining Wyeth, Dr. Abraham was a professor at the Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research (SBIMR) in La Jolla, California. He served as the Director of the SBIMR Cancer Research Center and successfully guided the center to a renewal of its designation as one of nine National Cancer Institute-sponsored basic science centers