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{{Short description|American pathologist}}
{{Infobox scientist
|name = Vinay Kumar
|image= Vinay Kumar.jpg
|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1944}}
|birth_place = [[India]]
|residence = [[United States of America]]
|nationality = [[Indian American]]
|field = [[Medicine]], [[Pathologist]]
|work_institution = [[University of Chicago]], [[Pritzker School of Medicine]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Poona]], [[Government Medical College, Amritsar]][[Panjab University, Chandigarh|Punjab University Medical College]], [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi]]
|doctoral_advisor = Dr M G Deo
|known_for = Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease and discovery of natural killer cells
}}
'''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]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. Kumar's profile at the UChicago Pathology|url=https://pathology.uchicago.edu/faculty/vinay-kumar-md-mbbs|access-date=9 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Thirteen UChicago faculty receive named, distinguished service professorships |url=https://news.uchicago.edu/story/thirteen-uchicago-faculty-receive-named-distinguished-service-professorships |work=University of Chicago News |language=en}}</ref> He is a recipient of Life Time Achievement Award by National Board of Examinations.<ref name=":0" />

==Biography==
Dr. Vinay Kumar was born in a town named Okara, about 100 miles from [[Lahore]] in [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|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.<ref>{{cite news|title=News release on the hiring of Prof. Kumar|url=https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/news/vinay-kumar-md-appointed-chairman-of-pathology|access-date=9 January 2020}}</ref>

He was one of the inaugural co-editors of the ''[[Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease]]'' in 2006.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1086/509485|title=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.|journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology|year=2006|volume=81|issue=3|page=314}}</ref>
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]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease - 10th Edition |date=15 June 2020 |publisher=Elsevier |isbn=9780323531139 |url=https://www.elsevier.com/books/robbins-and-cotran-pathologic-basis-of-disease/kumar/978-0-323-53113-9}}</ref>

Since 2003, Kumar is a [[Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science]] (AAAS).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031106/aaas.shtml|title=Nine on faculty elected 2003 AAAS fellows|work=University of Chicago Chronicle|volume=78|issue=4|date=November 6, 2003}}</ref>

He is credited with the discovery of Natural killer (NK) cells in immunology.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kumar |first1=V |last2=McNerney |first2=ME |s2cid=39722015 |title=A new self: MHC-class-I-independent natural-killer-cell self-tolerance. |journal=Nature Reviews. Immunology |date=May 2005 |volume=5 |issue=5 |pages=363–74 |doi=10.1038/nri1603 |pmid=15841099}}</ref>

==Awards and Honours==

* 2018: The Gold-Headed Cane Award by the American Society for Investigative Pathology<ref>{{cite news |title=ASIP Gold-Headed Cane Awarded to Vinay Kumar, MBBS, MD, FRCPath |url=https://myemail.constantcontact.com/ASIP-Gold-Headed-Cane-Awarded-To-Vinay-Kumar--MBBS--MD--FRCPath.html?soid=1128115220783&aid=82kFylJBwgc}}</ref>

* 2014: Life Time Achievement Award by National Board of Examinations<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Announcement for NBE Awards for Excellence in Medical Education 2014 |url=https://natboard.edu.in/pdoof/Awards%20%202014.pdf |website=NBE}}</ref>

* 2009: American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) Robbins Distinguished Educator Award<ref>{{cite web |title=2009 ASIP Robbins Distinguished Educator Award |url=https://www.asip.org/ASIP/assets/file/awards/robbins/VinayKumar_Robbins2009.pdf |website=American Society for Investigative Pathology}}</ref>

==Selected Books==
* Kumar V, Abbas A, Aster J, editors. Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. 10th Ed. Elsevier 2020. {{ISBN|9780323531139}}<ref>{{cite book |title=Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease - 10th Edition |date=2020 |edition=10th |url=https://www.elsevier.com/books/robbins-and-cotran-pathologic-basis-of-disease/kumar/978-0-323-53113-9}}</ref>

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