Vinay Kumar (pathologist)

Vinay Kumar (Born 1944, India) is the Lowell T. Coggeshall Distinguished Service Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago, where he is the Chair of the Department of Pathology. He is a recipient of Life Time Achievement Award by National Board of Examinations.
Biography.
Born in India in 1944, Dr. Kumar 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.
He is also 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.
Kumar V, Abbas A, Aster J, editors. Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. 10th Ed. Elsevier 2020. 