Vinay Kumar (pathologist)

Vinay Kumar (Born Dec 24, 1944, India) is the Lowell T. Coggeshall Distinguished Service Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago, where he was also the Chairman (2000-2016) of the Department of Pathology.[1][2] He is a recipient of Life Time Achievement Award by National Board of Examinations.[3]

Vinay Kumar
Born1944 (age 78–79)
India
NationalityIndian American
Alma materUniversity of Poona, Government Medical College, AmritsarPunjab 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

Dr. Vinay Kumar was born in a town named Okara, about 100 miles from Lahore in undivided India on December 24, 1944. He 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 Glancy Medical College present day Government 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.[4]

He was one of the inaugural co-editors of the Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease in 2006.[5] He has been the senior editor of the pathology reference book Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease co-edited with Dr. Abul K. Abbas.[6]

Since 2003, Kumar is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[7]

He is credited with the discovery of Natural killer (NK) cells in immunology.[8]

Awards and honours
  • 2018: The Gold-Headed Cane Award by the American Society for Investigative Pathology[9]
  • 2014: Life Time Achievement Award by National Board of Examinations[3]
  • 2009: American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) Robbins Distinguished Educator Award[10]

Selected books
  • Kumar, V.; Abbas, A.; Aster, J., eds. (2020). Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease - 10th Edition (10th ed.). ISBN 978-0-323-53113-9.

References
  1. "Dr. Kumar's profile at the UChicago Pathology". Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  2. "Thirteen UChicago faculty receive named, distinguished service professorships". University of Chicago News.
  3. "Announcement for NBE Awards for Excellence in Medical Education 2014" (PDF). NBE.
  4. "News release on the hiring of Prof. Kumar". Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  5. "Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease. Volume 1: 2006. Edited by Abul K Abbas, James R Downing, and , Vinay Kumar. Palo Alto (California): Annual Reviews. $55.00. Xii + 552 p; ill.; subject index. ISBN: 0‐8243‐4301‐8. 2006". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 81 (3): 314. 2006. doi:10.1086/509485.
  6. Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease - 10th Edition. Elsevier. 15 June 2020. ISBN 978-0-323-53113-9.
  7. "Nine on faculty elected 2003 AAAS fellows". University of Chicago Chronicle. Vol. 78, no. 4. November 6, 2003.
  8. 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.
  9. "ASIP Gold-Headed Cane Awarded to Vinay Kumar, MBBS, MD, FRCPath".
  10. "2009 ASIP Robbins Distinguished Educator Award" (PDF). American Society for Investigative Pathology.


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