Stuart Kornfeld

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.^[2] 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.

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. Kornfeld was first an instructor of medicine,^[6] was promoted to assistant professor, and eventually professor in 1972.^[4] From 1991 to 1997, he served as the director of the Medical Scientist Training Program.^[4]

Kornfeld died on August 17, 2025, at the age of 89.^[7]

• 1972 – Elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation^[8]
• 1976 – Elected to the Association of American Physicians
• 1982 – Elected to the National Academy of Sciences^[9]
• 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^[10]
• 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)^[11][12]
• 2010 – Kober Medal, Association of American Physicians
• 2012 – Herbert Tabor/Journal of Biological Chemistry Lectureship, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology^[3]