Kenneth Wayne Kinzler (born January 30, 1962) is a professor of oncology, and director of the Ludwig Center at

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

at the

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University is an NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Baltimore, MD. It was established in 1973 and received its NCI designation that same year as one of the first designated ca ...

. Kinzler received his PhD from

in 1988. He is of German descent. Much of his work has been in collaboration with

Bert Vogelstein Bert Vogelstein (born 1949) is director of the Ludwig Center, Clayton Professor of Oncology and Pathology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at The Johns Hopkins Medical School and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. A pion ...

, beginning when Kinzler was a graduate student and Vogelstein was a new assistant professor. He developed

serial analysis of gene expression Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE) is a transcriptomic technique used by molecular biologists to produce a snapshot of the messenger RNA population in a sample of interest in the form of small tags that correspond to fragments of those tra ...

(SAGE) as a bioinformatics tool for the quantification of gene expression.

Awards

* 2002

MERIT Award The NIH MERIT award (Method To Extend Research in Time) Award (R37) was created by the National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary age ...

, National Cancer Institute * 2006 NCI Director's Service Award * 2012 MERIT Award, National Cancer Institute * 2013 AACR Team Science Award (pancreatic cancer team) * 2014 AACR Team Science Award (brain cancer team) * 2014 Elected fellow of the AACR Academy * 2015 Elected member of the National Academy of Medicine * 2016 Elected fellow of the

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

* 2017 AACR Team Science Award (liquid biopsy team) *2020 ''The Times'' 'Science Power List'

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kinzler, Kenneth W. Fellows of the AACR Academy American oncologists Johns Hopkins University faculty Cancer researchers Living people Members of the National Academy of Medicine Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Johns Hopkins University alumni 1962 births