Kenneth W. Kinzler

Kenneth Wayne Kinzler (born January 30, 1962) 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 (SAGE) as a bioinformatics tool for the quantification of gene expression.