Bio

Vinay was born in 1997 in Jammu, India. He began his academic journey with a B.Sc. in Chemistry (Honours) from the University of Delhi (Hindu College), followed by an M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee. He completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry (supervisor Prof. Zeev Gross and co-advised by Prof. Yehuda G Assaraf) at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, where he worked on the development of stimuli-responsive corrole nanoparticles for enhanced cancer detection and treatment. During his PhD, he held several prestigious positions and contributed significantly to various research initiatives. As a Visiting Ph.D. Student in the lab of Prof. Harry Gray at the California Institute of Technology, he focused on synthesizing druggable corroles for use in bioimaging and cancer treatment. He also collaborated with Prof. Lali Medina-Kauwe from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on developing new nanocarriers for triple-negative breast cancer chemotherapy, combining tumor-targeting proteins with corrole-based chemotherapeutic agents. He is currently a Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he works in the Jasanoff Lab within the Department of Biological Engineering. His research focuses on synthesizing paramagnetic nanoscale sensors for imaging neurochemicals such as calcium, dopamine, and serotonin in the brain, aiming to understand their role in behavior and cognition.

He holds several honors including HFSP Cross-Disciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is also a guest editor for a special issue on “Biological Activity of Metal Complexes” for the journal Inorganics and serves as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals.