[1][2] He is a recipient of Life Time Achievement Award by National Board of Examinations.

[3] Dr. Vinay Kumar was born in a town named Okara, about 100 miles southwest from Lahore in British India (now Pakistan) on December 24, 1944.

He graduated with honors, at the age of 17, from Savitribai Phule Pune University.

[4] He was one of the inaugural co-editors of the Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease in 2006.

[6] Since 2003, Kumar is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).