Karen Avraham

Prof. Karen B. Avraham
קרן אברהם
Born1962
Quebec, Canada
NationalityUS/Israel
Alma materWashington University in St. Louis
Weizmann Institute
Known forHuman Genetics, Deafness, Israeli-Palestinian Scientific Cooperation
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics, Hearing Impairment
InstitutionsTel Aviv University

Karen B. Avraham (Hebrew: קרן אברהם) is an Israeli-American human geneticist and the first female Dean of Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Medicine. Born in Canada in 1962, Avraham moved to the US at a young age. Her research focuses on the discovery and characterization of genes responsible for hereditary hearing loss.