Vinay Kumar

Vinay Kumar (Born Dec 24, 1944, Okara) 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. He is a recipient of Life Time Achievement Award by National Board of Examinations.

He was one of the inaugural co-editors of the Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease in 2006. 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.

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

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

Awards and honours

2018: The Gold-Headed Cane Award by the American Society for Investigative Pathology 2014: Life Time Achievement Award by National Board of Examinations 2009: American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) Robbins Distinguished Educator Award

Selected books