Vinay Kumar (pathologist)

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Vinay Kumar
Born 1944 (age 79–80)
India
Residence United States of America
Nationality Indian American
Fields Medicine, Pathologist
Institutions University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
Alma mater University of Poona, Punjab University Medical College, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Doctoral advisor - Dr M G Deo
Doctoral students -
Known for Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease and discovery of natural killer cells

Professor 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][2]

Biography

Born in India in 1944, Dr. Kumar graduated with honors, at the age of 17, from University of Poona. 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.[3]

He is also the senior editor of the pathology reference book Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease.[4]

References

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