{{Short description|American professor of medicine (1936–2025)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2018}} '''Stuart Arthur Kornfeld''' (October 4, 1936 – August 17, 2025) was an American professor of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and researcher in glycobiology.<ref>{{cite journal | pmc= 4563762 | pmid=26237040 | doi=10.1172/JCI82628 | volume=125 | title=A conversation with Stuart Kornfeld | journal=J Clin Invest | pages=2908–9 | last1 = Kornfeld | first1 = S | last2 = Neill | first2 = US| year=2015 | issue=8 }}</ref>

==Early life and education == Kornfeld was born in St. Louis on October 4, 1936, to Ruth and Max Kornfeld. He graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in 1954.<ref>''Ladue Horton Watkins High School website'', [https://alumni.ladueschools.net/distinguished-alumni-2002/ "Distinguished Alumni"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011053513/https://alumni.ladueschools.net/distinguished-alumni-2002/ |date=October 11, 2018 }}. Accessed February 8, 2018.</ref> He received his A.B. in 1958 from Dartmouth College and his MD in 1962 from Washington University School of Medicine. In 1959, he married Rosalind Hauk, a PhD student at Washington University.

== Career == After medical school, Kornfeld did an internship at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, and spent 2 years (1963–1965)<ref name=":1" /> as a research associate at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.<ref name=":0" /> He then returned to Washington University where he has remained since, serving as the school's hematology division head for thirty years.<ref name=":1" /> He and his wife Rosalind, with whom he collaborated scientifically,<ref name=":62">{{Cite journal|last=Varki|first=Ajit|date=2010-07-01|title=2010 Association of American Physicians George M. Kober MedalIntroduction of Stuart Kornfeld|journal=The Journal of Clinical Investigation|language=en|volume=120|issue=7|pages=2635–2638|doi=10.1172/JCI43804|issn=0021-9738|pmc=2898621|pmid=20592476}}</ref> were recruited to the faculty in 1966 alongside Phil Majerus by the University's Chairman of Medicine. Kornfeld was first an instructor of medicine,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sadler|first=J. Evan|date=August 12, 2016|title=Phillip W. Majerus, MD (1936-2016)|url=http://www.hematology.org/Thehematologist/Profiles/6437.aspx|department=Profiles|journal=The Hematologist|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=American Society of Hematology|volume=13|issue=5|doi=10.1182/hem.V13.5.6437|url-access=subscription}}</ref> was promoted to assistant professor, and eventually professor in 1972.<ref name=":0" /> From 1991 to 1997, he served as the director of the Medical Scientist Training Program.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://oncology.wustl.edu/people/faculty/Kornfeld/Kornfeld_Bio.html|title=Stuart Kornfeld|last=<!--no byline-->|date=July 11, 2017|website=Faculty|publisher=Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis|access-date=December 12, 2017}}</ref>

== Death == Kornfeld died on August 17, 2025, at the age of 89.<ref>{{Cite web |last=MD |first=Victoria Fraser |date=2025-08-18 |title=In Memoriam: Stuart Arthur Kornfeld, MD |url=https://internalmedicine.wustl.edu/obituary-stuart-arthur-kornfeld-md/ |access-date=2025-08-21 |website=John T. Milliken Department of Medicine |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Awards == * 1972 – Elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Varki|first=Ajit|author-link=Ajit Varki|date=July 2010|title=Introduction to Stuart Kornfeld|url=http://cmm.ucsd.edu/varki/varkilab/Publications/B145.pdf|journal=The Journal of Clinical Investigation|volume=120|issue=7|pages=2635&ndash;8|doi=10.1172/jci43804|pmid=20592476|pmc=2898621}}</ref> * 1976 – Elected to the Association of American Physicians * 1982 – Elected to the National Academy of Sciences<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/53664.html|title=Stuart Kornfeld|website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref> * 1983 – Elected to the Institute of Medicine * 1984 – Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences * 1987 – Elected to the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters<ref>{{Cite book |title=Årsbok –Vuosikirja A LXV 1988 |publisher=Societas Scientiarum Fennica |year=1988 |editor-last=Chydenius |editor-first=Johan |location=Helsinki |pages=27}}</ref> * 1992 – E. Donnall Thomas Prize, American Society of Hematology (inaugural recipient) * 1999 – Karl Meyer Award, Society for Glycobiology * 2010 – E. B. Wilson Medal, American Society for Cell Biology (with James Rothman and Randy Schekman)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oncology.wustl.edu/people/faculty/Kornfeld/Kornfeld_Bio.html|title=Stuart Kornfeld|website=oncology.wustl.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ascb.org/e-b-wilson-medal/|title=E.B. Wilson Medal|last=<!-- no byline -->|date=<!-- no source date indicated -->|publisher=The American Society for Cell Biology|access-date=June 5, 2018}}</ref> * 2010 – Kober Medal, Association of American Physicians * 2012 – Herbert Tabor/Journal of Biological Chemistry Lectureship, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/asbmbtoday_article.aspx?id=16447|title=Tabor/JBC Lectureship Award: Kornfeld's work applauded for its 'rigor and scientific breadth'|last=Hunt|first=Geoff|date=April 2012|work=ASBMB Today|access-date=June 5, 2018|publisher=American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology}}</ref>

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== Further reading == * {{Cite journal|last=Schroeder|first=Mark A.|date=September 1, 2008|title=The Evolution of the Hematology Fellowship|url=http://www.hematology.org/Thehematologist/Features/1297.aspx|journal=The Hematologist|publisher=American Society of Hematology|volume=5|issue=5|doi=10.1182/hem.V5.5.1297|url-access=subscription}}

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