---
title: 'Episode 102: Dr Vinay Kumar Part 1 - Compassion, Curiosity, and Natural Killer Cells'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/episode-102-dr-vinay-kumar-part-1-compassion-curiosity-and-natural-killer-cells'
show: 'People of Pathology Podcast'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/people-of-pathology-podcast'
published: '2022-03-07'
audio: 'https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/47pkpt/Dr_Vinay_Kumar_-_3_6_22_516_PMa1e5t.mp3'
---

# 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...

## Summary

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](https://healthpodcastnetwork.com/)

[ LabVine Learning](http://bit.ly/labvine)

[The ConfLab from LabVine](https://www.labvinelearning.com/TheConflab)

[Dress A Med scrubs](https://dressamed.com/?rfsn=5044297.cb03eb&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=5044297.cb03eb)

[The Accidental Pathologist: A Curiosity-Driven Journey from Plant Evolution to Innate Immunity](https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-pathmechdis-012419-032855)

[All India Institute of Medical Sciences](https://www.aiims.edu/en.html)

[Functions of Natural Killer Cells](https://www.nature.com/articles/ni1582)

[Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease](https://www.elsevier.com/books/robbins-and-cotran-pathologic-basis-of-disease/kumar/978-0-323-53113-9)

People of Pathology Podcast:

[Website](https://peopleofpathology.com/)

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/peopleofpath)