Kenneth W. Kinzler
Kenneth Wayne Kinzler is a professor of oncology, and director of the Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins University at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Kinzler received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1988. He is of German descent.
Much of his work has been in collaboration with Bert Vogelstein, beginning when Kinzler was a graduate student and Vogelstein was a new assistant professor.
He developed serial analysis of gene expression as a bioinformatics tool for the quantification of gene expression.
Awards
- 2002 MERIT Award, National Cancer Institute
- 2006 NCI Director's Service Award
- 2012 MERIT Award, National Cancer Institute
- 2013 AACR Team Science Award
- 2014 AACR Team Science Award
- 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 (Medical [genetics">List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Medical genetics, hematology, and oncology)">National Academy of Sciences (Medical [genetics, hematology, and oncology)|National Academy of Sciences]
- 2017 AACR Team Science Award
- 2020 The Times 'Science Power List'