ONEIDA >> Dr. James L. Kinsella, 65, of Florence Avenue, passed away on Monday, May 25, 2015, in the comfort of his home, with his loving family by his side.
Born in Oneida, on March 9, 1950, he was a son of Dr. George R. and Doris Cunningham Kinsella. Returning to Oneida in 2000, after living several years in Maryland, Dr. Kinsella was a graduate of Oneida High School, Class of 1968, Alfred University, Class of 1972, began studies for his doctorate (Ph.D.) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received his doctorate from Upstate Medical University in 1979, and did a post doctorate fellowship at Yale University, School of Medicine.
He married Barbara Moran in Hornell on March 24, 1972.
Prior to his retirement in 2001, Dr. Kinsella was a research scientist and research fellow with the National Institute of Health.
He completed the Ph.D. program in pharmacology at Upstate Medical School at Syracuse. His ground breaking work on the kidney's handling of drugs led to a fellowship in the Department of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. While at Yale, Kinsella published a paper in 1980 on the kidney that was honored 22 years later as one of the key landmark studies in kidney research.
In 1981, he established his own laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) facility in Baltimore. He is credited with more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in the world's leading scientific journals. He has presented his research at many universities plus national and world conferences. One of many highlights of his career was the privilege of working with and co-authoring a scientific paper on brain transmitter receptors with Julius Axelrod, a Nobel Laureate.
During the '90s Kinsella demonstrated that a cancer treatment drug could be used to coat the stents and block the long term restriction of blood flow. For this he received numerous U.S. and world patents. Kinsella's technological breakthrough has been among the top 20 commercially successful innovations developed at NIH for nine of the previous 10 years. It is the number one commercial success from NIH in five of those years and has resulted in almost $100 million in royalties for additional support of medical research at NIH.
In 2005, Dr. Kinsella was recognized by the Intellectual Property Owners Association for his inventions as one of the five finalists as ""US Inventor of the Year."" He was invited to Washington for the ceremony marking the first time any NIH inventor was so recognized by this group. The idea was also recognized as the top government invention the same year.
Since returning to Oneida, Dr. Kinsella has served as the treasurer of the Oneida Library Foundation, been a member of the Christ Church, United Methodist and its Men's Fellowship Committee and has enjoyed his loves of gardening, traveling and reading. This past September, the Oneida City School District Foundation recognized him as a member of the ""Class of 2014 Wall of Distinction.""
Surviving beside his wife, Barbara, are his daughter and her husband, Colleen Kinsella and Robert Parker of Vienna, Austria; two sons and their wives, Kyle L. Kinsella and Jacqueline Heinze of Los Angeles, Calif. and Corey J. and Wendy Kinsella of Mt. Pleasant, S.C.; two grandchildren, George H. Kinsella and Connor W. Kinsella; one sister and her husband, Eileen Kinsella and Dennis Sands of Chittenango; five brothers and their wives, Donald T. and Pauline Kinsella of Niskayuna, G. Richard Kinsella and Dawn Krupiarz and Robert W. and Beth Kinsella, all of Oneida, Thomas M. and Toni Kinsella of Saratoga and David J. and Dianne Kinsella of Bristol, Va.; one aunt and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Funeral services will be held 11 a.m., Saturday from Christ Church, United Methodist in Sherrill with the Rev. Robert Kolvik-Campbell, pastor, officiating. Private interment will be made in Glenwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the Campbell-Dean Funeral Home, Inc., 260 Main St., Oneida, 3-7 p.m., Friday. Contributions, in his memory may be made to the Mary Rose Clinic, 1081 Northside Shopping Center, Oneida or the Oneida Library Capital Campaign, Broad Street, Oneida, N.Y. 13421.
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