In this Journey of a Young Investigator (JOYI) 2026 article, Harshiny Muthukumar reflects on building a research lab from scratch while navigating motherhood and early-career challenges. Her journey highlights how science grows through patience, mentorship, and resilience—reminding us that meaningful research is often built slowly, step by step, brick by brick.
From the earliest cell membranes to whale echolocation and plant waterproofing, lipids have quietly shaped the evolution of life. This article explores how these versatile molecules enabled containment, communication, adaptation, and survival across diverse organisms, revealing an often-overlooked chemical history that runs alongside the evolution of life itself.
The traditional patent model relies on high sales volumes to recoup costs, a mechanism that directly contradicts the global need to conserve our last-resort antibiotics. This article by Umeshkumar explores the “stewardship paradox” and argues for delinkage models to align innovation with public health and sustainable antimicrobial use.
In this reflection, Manoj Saxena revisits conversations sparked during YIM 2026 and a train journey afterwards to examine India’s evolving innovation ecosystem. From team science and biomanufacturing ambitions to fragmented execution, funding gaps, and barriers faced by returning scientists, the piece explores the tension between collective aspiration and structural reality.
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The Virtual Town Hall on the i3c BRIC-RCB PhD Programme featured Arvind K. Sahu, Executive Director, Regional Centre for Biotechnology.
This session covered the programme structure, research opportunities, and the application process, followed by a live Q&A.
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At the 18th Young Investigators' Meeting held in Pune from 2-6 March 2026, Marileen Dogterom speaks about her career journey through her talk titled, 'Building a Synthetic Cell (Community)'.
This talk was delivered as part of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) Global Lecture Series (GLS).
About the speaker: Marileen Dogterom is a Professor in the Department of Bionanoscience at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in TU Delft and Medical Delta Professor at Leiden University. Read more about her here
At the 18th Young Investigators' Meeting held in Pune from 2-6 March 2026, Anna Barron from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore shares her career journey through her talk titled 'Energy, Inflammation and Curiosity: A journey through Brain Metabolism and Discovery'.
This talk was delivered as part of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) Global Lecture Series (GLS).
About the speaker: Anna Barron is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology of Aging and Disease at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Read more about her here
This episode features Madhuri Dutta, Head of Strategic Partnerships and Commission Research at the George Institute for Global Health, India and leads research, management and capacity building initiatives. An Indian Research Management Initiative Fellow supported by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India Wellcome Trust India Alliance, Madhuri is also a part of the Global CORE Unit and works with colleagues from other regional offices of the institute. She has contributed to several courses, workshops and training programmes in research skills for early career researchers. Madhuri is interested in creating institutional processes that facilitate quality research and an enabling research environment.
This podcast episode features Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief of Nature's magazine and research editorial teams.
Speaking with Sreshtha Mondal from IndiaBioscience, Magdalena provides the editorial and publisher's perspective on Nature's policy change from mid-June 2025. Hear her share details about how the decision came through after a period of trial, advice on how to make the best of this decision by reviewers, authors and communicators and a lot more.
This podcast episode features Deepti Jain, Professor and structural biologist at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad, India.
Speaking with Sreshtha Mondal from IndiaBioscience, Deepti provides an academic’s perspective on Nature's policy change. Hear her share details about the peer review process and its significance for scientific research, how structural biology, as a field, has been practising open research, and more.
JOYI: Journey of a Young Investigator
(2025 edition)
This collection celebrates the stories of young investigators in attendance at the Young Investigators Meeting (YIM) 2025 held in North India at Agra, Uttar Pradesh.
PH.D. IN COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY – AREAS: AI in Health Care; Biomedical Image Analytics; Clinical Informatics; Computational Genomics; Computer-Aided Drug Discovery, Cheminformatics; Multi-Omic Data Analytics; Biomedical Image Analytics, Disease Modelling & Digital Twins, Computer-aided Biotherapeutics DiscoveryPH.D. IN BIOTECHNOLOGY – AREAS: CRISPR …
The National Bio Entrepreneurship Competition (NBEC), a flagship event of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C‑CAMP), is India’s largest and most prestigious national competition for bio entrepreneurs. NBEC aims to attract, identify and nurture deep science- driven business …
The Advanced Science Young Innovator Award recognizes outstanding, interdisciplinary scientific work in the fundamental understanding and applied development of materials science and chemistry, physics and engineering, life and health sciences, earth and environmental sciences, as well as social sciences and …
The aim of ‘Write On—2024’, a science writing competition by IndiaBioscience, is to encourage diverse popular science writing styles among the younger life science researchers and students in India. This booklet is a compilation of all the articles written by the winners of 'Write On—2024'.
You can view or download this booklet from here.
You can find the flip-book here.
Create-it!, the science-art competition 2024, was an exciting initiative by IndiaBioscience supported by HiMedia, which culminated in the creation of this inspiring e-compendium.
This e-compendium features a curated collection of the winning, popular choice, commendable and spotlight entries, offering a captivating glimpse into the diverse and innovative ways in which science and art can intersect.
You can view or download this booklet from here.
Academia-Industry Transitions, Volume - II is a collection of stories and perspectives on the switchover from academia to industry. With articles on a wide range of topics from professional transition stories to collaboration initiatives, this compendium is a comprehensive career resource book for industry aspirants in different phases of their career.
You can read or download this e-book here. You can find the flip-book here.
