Abbott is an Associate Professor within the Department of Translational Medicine in the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM) at Florida International University (FIU). She is the Associate Director of the Translational Glycobiology Institute at FIU (TGIF), a center focused on collaborative translational research that fosters an environment that supports mentoring of the next generation of scientists and promotes research excellence. Dr. Abbott has been a leader in the field of glycoproteomics and biomarker discovery for over 14 years. Dr. Abbott received her PhD in Biochemistry at The University of Georgia in 2004. She was awarded an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2005 where she developed lectin capture methods for the analysis of glycoproteins from human tissues and plasma using mass spectrometry methods. She has been funded for ovarian cancer research by since 2010. She is currently funded by an Alliance of Glycobiologists NCI grant to understand how complex carbohydrates contribute to the development and progression of ovarian cancer. She is also currently funded by the NCI Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies grant that supports the development of novel and transformative technologies to develop new therapeutics and diagnostics for cancer.

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Physiology and Biophysics; Cancer Biomark; Glycoscience