Michael S. Kinch

Michael Kinch (1966-Present) is Chief Innovation Officer at Stony Brook University. He is the author of The Price of Health (2021), Between Hope and Fear (2017), The End of the Beginning (2018), A Prescription for Change (2016) and The Pantheon and the Mortuary (2023). Beyond his current work documenting the sources of innovation responsible for new medicines, he has led cancer research activities at the biotechnology company MedImmune and the development of medicines to prevent pandemic virus outbreaks at Functional Genetics, Inc. He led drug discovery at Yale University and Washington University in St Louis before moving to New York.