Episode 102: Dr Vinay Kumar Part 1 - Compassion, Curiosity, and Natural Killer Cells

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: Health Podcast Network  LabVine Learning The ConfLab from LabVine Dress A Med scrubs   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   People of Pathology Podcast: Website Twitter