Episode 104
Episode 102: Dr Vinay Kumar Part 1 - Compassion, Curiosity, and Natural Killer Cells
Mar 7, 2022
48:57
Episode Description
Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Vinay Kumar
What we discuss with Dr Kumar:
- How his grandfather influenced him in becoming a doctor, and taught him the lesson of compassion
- How curiosity led him to study botany, and how it led him back to medicine
- How he became interested in research of disease mechanisms
- Traveling to the US to work with Dr Stanley Robbins in Boston, and some of his first experiences in the US
- His early research with Natural Killer cells
Links for this episode:
The Accidental Pathologist: A Curiosity-Driven Journey from Plant Evolution to Innate Immunity
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Functions of Natural Killer Cells
Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease
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