Kevin J. Tracey
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December 10, 1957 Fort Wayne, Indiana |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Neurosurgery, immunology |
| Institutions | Feinstein Institute for Medical Research |
| Alma mater | Boston University |
| Known for | Bioelectronics |
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Kevin J. Tracey, a neurosurgeon and inventor, is the president and CEO of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, professor of neurosurgery and molecular medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, and President of the Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine in Manhasset, New York.
Tracey was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana on 10 December 1957. He received his B.S. in chemistry summa cum laude from Boston College in 1979 and his M.D. from Boston University in 1983. From 1983 to 1992 he trained in neurosurgery at the New York Hospital/Cornell University with Russel Patterson. During this time he was also a guest investigator at Rockefeller University.
In 1992, Tracey moved to the North Shore-LIJ Health System, in Manhasset, New York, where he practiced neurosurgery and established the Laboratory of Biomedical Science. In 2005 he was appointed president and CEO of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, and professor at and president of the Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine (Manhasset, New York). In 2008, North Shore-LIJ partnered with Hofstra University to establish a new school of medicine at Hofstra University.
Tracey studies inflammation, the physiological and immunological response to infection and injury, and worked on the mechanism by which neurons control the immune system.
In the early 1980s, with Stephen Lowry (Cornell University Medical Center) and Anthony Cerami (Rockefeller University), he described the direct inflammatory activity of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF). This was followed by a report that specific anti-TNF monoclonal antibodies can be effectively used as a therapeutic agent.
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