KENNETH DORSHKIND, PhD
Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Kenneth Dorshkind, professor and Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory medicine, earned his doctorate in Biological Structure at the University of Washington, Seattle in 1980 and then completed a three year post-doctoral fellowship in experimental hematology/developmental immunology at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, Canada. He serves as Director of the Hematopoietic Malignancies Program in the Jonnson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chair of the Campus Faculty Vivarium Committee, and Academic Associate Director of the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center. He co-directs the stem cell training grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine and coordinates and teaches in the graduate course in Stem Cell Biology. Research in the Dorshkind laboratory is supported by multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health and focuses on development and aging of the hematopoietic system.

Read more about Kenneth Dorshkind:

• Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Biography
• David Geffen School of Medicine Biography
• UCLA Access Page