A writer and consultant, Edward Abrahams is President Emeritus of the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC), an educational and advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. founded to advance the principles of personalized medicine.

Representing innovators, scientists, patients, providers, and payers, PMC promotes the understanding and adoption of personalized medicine concepts, services, and products for the benefit of patients and the health system. Under Dr. Abrahams’ leadership, PMC grew from its original 18 charter members with a budget of under $100,000 in 2004 to over 225 members from across the spectrum of healthcare stakeholders and a budget of over $3 million when he retired from the position at the end of 2024.

Previously, he was Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Association, where he spearheaded a successful effort to persuade the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to invest $200 million to commercialize biotechnology in the state. Earlier he had been Assistant Vice President for Federal Relations at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of Government Relations at Brown University. At both institutions he advocated for increasing research funding and defended higher education in the public sphere.

Dr. Abrahams also worked for seven years for the United States Congress, including as a legislative assistant to Senator Lloyd Bentsen, an economist for the Joint Economic Committee under the chairmanship of Representative Lee Hamilton, and as a AAAS Congressional Fellow for Representative Edward J. Markey.

The author of numerous essays across a wide spectrum of subjects, he also taught history and public policy at Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania and wroteThe Lyrical Left: Randolph Bourne, Alfred Stieglitz, and the Origins of Cultural Radicalism in America.