Stuart Arthur Kornfeld (born October 4, 1936) is a professor of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and researcher in glycobiology.
In 1959, he married Rosalind Hauk, a PhD student at Washington University.
After medical school, Kornfeld did an internship at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, and spent 2 years (1963–1965)[3] as a research associate at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.
[4] He then returned to Washington University where he has remained since, serving as the school's hematology division head for thirty years.
[3] He and his wife Rosalind, with whom he collaborated scientifically,[5] were recruited to the faculty in 1966 alongside Phil Majerus by the University's Chairman of Medicine.