Jonathan Abraham MD, PhD

Jonathan Abraham, MD, PhD is an Instructor in Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, and a Clinical and Research Fellow in Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a physician-scientist and his current work focuses on developing antibody-based therapeutics to treat emerging viral infections. Dr. Abraham graduated from Harvard College with a concentration in biochemical sciences, and from the MD-PhD program at Harvard Medical School, through which he obtained his PhD in Biophysics. He completed residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is a recipient of the Harvard Medical School Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Enrichment Award, and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Hearst Foundation Young Investigator in Medicine Award. His research uses methods in human immunology and structural biology to study how the human immune system fights off infections by viruses that cause highly lethal diseases.