Kenneth Wayne Kinzler (born January 30, 1962)[1] is a professor of oncology, and director of the Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins University at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
[2] Kinzler received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1988.
[2] He is of German descent.
[3] 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.
[3] He developed serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) as a bioinformatics tool for the quantification of gene expression.