Kenro Kusumi is a genome biologist and professor, dean of The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and senior vice provost at Arizona State University.

[2][3] Kusumi received his AB in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard College in 1988 and PhD[4] in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1997 with doctoral advisor Eric S.

[5] He was a Hitchings-Elion Fellow of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund in the laboratory of developmental biologist Robb Krumlauf at the National Institute for Medical Research in London.

[6] Kusumi was assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia from 2001 to 2006,[5] where he served as Director of Pediatric Orthopaedic Basic Science Research.

[14] He serves as mentor in ASU's HUES program[15] and GRADient organization for gender and sexual minority graduate students and their allies.