vinay kumar (PATHOLOGIST)

Vinay Kumar, MBBS, MD, FRCPath
Alice Hogge & Arthur Baer Professor

Chairman, Department of Pathology

Executive Vice Dean, Division of Biological Sciences

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Department of Pathology
The University of Chicago
MC 3083, S329
5841 S. Maryland Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773.702.0647
Fax: 773.702.9379
vkumar@bsd.uchicago.edu
Research Interests


Our laboratory is interested in the cellular and molecular biology of murine natural killer (NK) cells. These cells are believed to act as the first line of defense against tumors and viral infections. In addition they secrete a variety of cytokines including 1FN-g and GM-CSF that can influence the inflammatory response. Two aspects of NK cell biology are of particular interest to us: the development of NK cells from multipotent progenitor cells, and the identification of NK cell receptors and their ligands. Textbook Publications


Kumar V, Abbas AK, Fausto N, Aster JA. "Pathologic Basis of Disease." 8th edition, W.B. Saunders Co., 2009 in press (with translations into Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Turkish and Arabic).

Kumar V, Mitchell RM, Abbas AK, Fausto N. "Basic Pathology." 8th edition, W.B. Saunders, 2007 (with translations into Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Hungarian and Croatian).

Mitchell R, Kumar V, Abbas A, Fausto N. "Pocket Companion to Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease." 7th Edition, Elsevier Saunders, 2006.

Klatt E, Kumar V. "Robbins and Cotran Review of Pathology." 2nd Edition, Elsevier Saunders, 2005.

Kumar V, Fausto N, Abbas A. "Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease." 7th edition, Elsevier Saunders, 2004.