Vinay Kumar (pathologist)

Vinay Kumar is the Alice Hogge & Arthur Baer Distinguished Service Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago, where he is the Chair of the Department of Pathology.[1]

Vinay Kumar
Born1944 (age 75–76)
India
NationalityIndian American
Alma materUniversity of Poona, Punjab University Medical College, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Known forRobbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease and discovery of natural killer cells
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine, Pathologist
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
Doctoral advisorDr M G Deo

Biography

Born in India in 1944, Dr. Kumar graduated with honors, at the age of 17, from Savitribai Phule Pune University. He earned his MBBS in 1967, at the age of 22, from Punjab University Medical College, in Amritsar, where he was named "Best Medical Graduate" for that year, winning the Pfizer Award and the Gold Medal for highest achievement as a medical student. He completed both his PhD in experimental pathology and his residency in anatomic pathology and hematology in 1972 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where he was awarded the Khanolkar Prize for outstanding research in pathology.[2]

He is also the senior editor of the pathology reference book Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease co-edited with Dr. Abul K. Abbas.[3]

Since 2003, Kumar is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[4]

He is credited with the discovery of Natural killer (NK) cells in immunology.[5]

Awards and Honours

2018: The Gold-Headed Cane Award by the American Society for Investigative Pathology[6]

2014: Life Time Achievement Award by National Board of Examinations[7]

Selected Books

Cotran RS, Kumar VN, Stanley RL. Robbins pathologic basis of disease. WB Saunders CompHny, Philadelphia, USA.; 2004.

References
  1. "Dr. Kumar's profile at the UChicago Pathology". Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  2. "News release on the hiring of Prof. Kumar". Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  3. Kumar, Vinay; Fausto, Nelson; Robbins, Stanley L.; Abbas, Abul K.; Cotran, Ramzi S. (2005). Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. Philadelphia, PA.: Elsevier Saunders. ISBN 0-7216-0187-1.
  4. "Nine on faculty elected 2003 AAAS fellows". University of Chicago Chronicle. 78 (4). November 6, 2003.
  5. Kumar, V; McNerney, ME (May 2005). "A new self: MHC-class-I-independent natural-killer-cell self-tolerance". Nature Reviews. Immunology. 5 (5): 363–74. doi:10.1038/nri1603. PMID 15841099. S2CID 39722015.
  6. "ASIP Gold-Headed Cane Awarded to Vinay Kumar, MBBS, MD, FRCPath".
  7. "Announcement for NBE Awards for Excellence in Medical Education 2014" (PDF). NBE.


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