Background
Cantarow, Abraham was born on January 27, 1901 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Joseph and Helen (Karp) Cantarow.
Cantarow, Abraham was born on January 27, 1901 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Joseph and Helen (Karp) Cantarow.
Student Tufts College, 1917-1920. Doctor of Medicine Jefferson Medical College, 1924, Honorary Doctor of Science, 1968.
Intern Jefferson Medical College Hospital, 1924-1927, resident instructor, assistant professor, associate professor medicine Jefferson Medical College, 1927-1945, professor biochemistry, head department, 1945-1966, professor biochemistry emeritus, 1966-1979. Biochemist Jefferson Medical College Hospital, 1932-1945, assistant physician, 1936-1945. Research planning officer National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland., 1966-1975, special consultant, 1975-1979.
Consultant in biochemistry Bureau Medicine and Surgery, United States Navy, from 1947.
Member study section National Institutes of Health, 1960-1964. Member American Association Cancer Research (director, president 1969), American Physiological Society, American Society Pharmacology Experimental Therapeutics, Endocrine Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Philadelphia Biochemists. Member editorial board Metabolism.
Married Elizabeth Stern, August, 1932.