Kent Kirshenbaum is currently a professor of chemistry at New York University and Chief Scientific Officer at Maxwell Biosciences. His research interests are Bioorganic Chemistry, Biomimetic Chemistry, Protein Conformation and Dynamics, and Macromolecular Design.

Kent completed B.A. in Chemistry at Reed College, Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at University of California, San Francisco, followed by postdoctoral fellowship at California Institute of Technology.