Vinay Kumar (Born Dec 24, 1944, India) is the Lowell T. Coggeshall Distinguished Service Professor of

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at the

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, where he was also the Chairman (2000-2016) of the Department of

. He is a recipient of Life Time Achievement Award by National Board of Examinations.

Biography

Dr. Vinay Kumar was born in a town named Okara, about 100 miles from

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on December 24, 1944. He graduated with honors, at the age of 17, from

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. He earned his MBBS in 1967, at the age of 22, from Glancy Medical College present day Government medical college in

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, 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

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, where he was awarded the Khanolkar Prize for outstanding research in pathology. 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

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(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

* Kumar V, Abbas A, Aster J, editors. Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. 10th Ed. Elsevier 2020.

References

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