The 14th Young Investigators' Meeting (YIM 2022) was held online from 4-6 May 2022. Sixty young investigators and an equal number of post-doctoral fellows enthusiastically participated and gleaned insights from several senior scientists, guest speakers, panellists and institutional representatives. This article is the second in a two-part series reporting on the proceedings.

For the past thirteen years, the Young Investigators' Meeting (YIM) — IndiaBioscience's (IBS) annual flagship event — has facilitated young scientists in life sciences to catapult their scientific careers by providing a platform for networking and mentoring from seniors and experts in their field. This article is the first of a two-part report on this year’s event, covering highlights of the three-day YIM proceedings.

In 2020, IndiaBioscience launched the IndiaBioscience Outreach Grant (IOG) of one-lakh rupees to encourage innovative outreach ideas. Anusheela Chatterjee and Aprotim Mazumder were among the recipients of the grants in the first cycle. Here, Chatterjee recounts her team’s experience of making a video series on the often-unnoticed stories of a researcher’s journey in a scientific inquiry.

The 14th Young Investigators’ Meeting (YIM 2022) is being held in a virtual format from 4 – 12 May. We asked the organisers of YIM 2022 (Felix Bast, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda; Megha, The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, Bengaluru; Mohit Kumar Jolly, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; Shantala Hari Dass, IndiaBioscience, Bengaluru) a few questions about the upcoming meeting. Here is what they had to say.

Internships provide a first-hand experience to those stepping into a career while providing a safe and stable environment to test and hone their skills. Sumeet Kulkarni got his feet wet in the writing world with a three-month internship program in science journalism offered by IndiaBioscience. Here, he shares a few pointers from his learning that ignited his career as a science journalist.