About Paul R. Knoll

Paul R. Knoll is committed to advancing the understanding of SIDS. This article highlights his work and contributions to infant health research.

Professional Biography

The principal of this SIDS project has his 1980 undergraduate B.A. from Hope College in German and Chemistry, double majors. He completed one year of medical school at the University of Michigan in 1981.  He received a 1990 A.A.A.S. in Occupational Therapy Assisting from Grand Rapids Community College.

He moved to Berrien Springs, Michigan and worked as a certified occupational therapy assistant in geriatrics.  He worked in an analytical food testing laboratory for 7 years doing HPLC and methods development.  He has a DNA Adduct research-thesis-based M.S. in Chemistry from Western Michigan University in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Jay C. Means.

From 2004 to 2018, he has been professionally involved with the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, ending as manager of the Baby Mattress Covers, LLC, SIDS prevention business.  He’s an active member of the ACS and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Since May of 2019, he has been researching the sudden infant death peer-reviewed literature to amalgamate the truths of existing theories into one coherent whole. (Actually, with two overlapping causes.)  The Triple Risk Model of SIDS and the toxicologist’s Haber’s Rule provide structure for the solution to SIDS in the range of 1 month to 1 year.  Immature kidneys are the developmental timing and  “explain” the deaths of infants between birth and 1 month, and then beyond, into the SIDS-risk age range out to 6 to 9 months.

He and his wife, Barb, a retired certified nurse midwife, have never had children due to age.  He enjoys working but has really not been paid for any extended period of time since being an Adjunct Instructor in Chemistry for the local community college in the fall of 2009.  He has participated in the past in the Grand Rapids, MI Start Garden and Inventors Coalition.

His ORCID is 0000-0002-8692-3329