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.

In the third article of our JOYI 2022 series, Divya Prasanna Kumar, Assistant Professor, Liver Metabolism and Diseases Laboratory, JSS Medical College, Mysuru, shares her experiences of navigating through science as part of an academic couple.

In the second article of our JOYI 2022 series, leading up to YIM 2022, Rohan Jayant Khadilkar,Principal Investigator, Advanced Centre for Treatment Research & Education in Cancer, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, expresses his joy in pursuing a life in science.

In the first article of our JOYI 2022 series, leading up to YIM 2022, Mohit Kumar Jolly shares his experiences in setting up the Cancer Systems Biology Laboratory in the Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.