Nithya Kutty is an Assistant Professor at the MIT World Peace University, Pune. In this sixth article of the Journey Of Young Investigator (JOYI) 2024 series, she shares her unique academic journey, highlighting the challenges and triumphs of setting up a research lab from scratch while balancing personal and professional responsibilities.

Gaurav Sharma is an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad, Telangana. In this fifth article of the Journey Of Young Investigator (JOYI) 2024 series, he shares his journey and challenges of transitioning from DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow to a young scientist committed to advancing research in India.

Shruthi Vembar is an Assistant Professor at Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB), Bengaluru. In this second article of the JOYI 2024 series, she chronicles the challenging transition journey to India, facing dilemmas of networking, acceptance of short-term offers, and unanswered questions about the academic hiring process.

Nirmalya Sen is an Assistant Professor at the Division of Molecular Medicine of Bose Institute, Kolkata. In this invited article, he writes about his research journey as a young investigator that took him through two labs in India to a place he calls home.

In the fourth article of our JOYI 2022 series, Chandana Basu, DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Genetic Disorders, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, speaks about the different challenges she faced on her journey as a young investigator, and the lessons and navigational skills learnt.