Main expertise: Cell and molecular mechanobiology, Microscopy
Vinay is mechanical engineer by training who obtained his PhD in Materials Sciences at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill under the supervision of Dr. Richard Superfine in 2011. Here, he developed magnetic tweezers-based techniques to investigate the relationship between the mechanical properties of cancer cells and their disease phenotype as well as the molecular mechanisms that connect the two. Following his PhD, he moved to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to work with Dr. Clare Waterman where he used state of the art microscopy approaches including high/super-resolution and polarization microscopy to investigate cell and molecular mechanisms of mechanotransduction. Vinay moved to Lund in November 2018 as a Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) fellow where his group, the Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Mechanobiology uses principles of physics and fundamental cell biology to investigate how physical signals in our body are sensed and transduced into biochemical signals that determine key cellular functions such as cell migration, differentiation, and growth. In addition, his group investigates the mis-regulation of these functions in the context of tumorigenesis, growth, and metastasis.
Besides being a WCMM fellow, Vinay is a board member for Lund University Cancer Centre (LUCC) and an adjunct member of Nanolund. In 2023, Vinay was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund.
