Since Jan 2023, Dr. Ravinder Kumar has been associated with the Department of Pathology, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), Memphis, TN 38163, USA. He received his Master’s in Biotechnology from the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in 2011. Dr Kumar completed his PhD studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in 2016. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Employee at the Department of Biological Sciences, Section of Molecular Biology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where he worked on autophagy using yeast. From 2018 to 2021, Dr Kumar was a Postdoctoral Research Employee in the Department of Obe, Gyne, and Reproductive Science at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he developed yeast-based screening of environmental chemicals for their reproductive toxicities. Dr. Kumar also worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, from January 2022 to December 2022, where he developed a workflow for expressing and purifying virus-like particles (VLPs) from yeast Pichia pastoris. His research interests include studying yeast-based vaccines, yeast-based screening, biotechnological application of yeast, autophagy, and cell signaling using yeast.