Regional YIMs aim to build local networks of scientists and science professionals with an aim to promote regional collaborations and change. The RYIMs are intended to be Young Investigator (YI) driven endeavours that will not only promote the ethos of YIMs in local scientific communities but also foster collaborative leadership among YIs in the region.

Importantly, RYIMs are expected to be​‘no-garland’ events, optimised towards a supportive and collaborative environment for the participants, resource personnel and organisers. RYIMs will ensure diversity and representation across gender and other demographics for participants, speakers, panelists and resource personnel.

The Regional Young Investigators’ Meeting (2024−2025), Visakhapatnam will be organised at GITAM (deemed to be University) and Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone Limited (AMTZ), Visakhapatnam and will be conducted across three days (18 September - 20 September 2024).

RYIM Visakhapatnam, 2024 – 2025

On behalf of IndiaBioscience and the local organising committee, RYIM Visakhapatnam would like to invite all active researchers (PhD scholars, postdoctoral fellows, faculty members, young PIs, group leaders, independent investigators, early career researchers, faculty fellows including Ramanujan, Ramalingaswami, DST INSPIRE, India Alliance fellows, academia scientists and industry executives) and science professionals (science communicators, grants and research managers), educators, clinicians, researchers from incubation centres, start-ups, entrepreneurs. 

RYIM Visakhapatnam aims to provide a platform for fostering local networks of scientists, medical technology professionals from industry, PhD scholars and students from the various disciplines of biosciences to promote regional collaboration and scientific progress in the field of medical technology. This event will offer a great opportunity for the participants to leverage through the dynamics of academia-industry collaborations. 

GITAM, with its academic significance and AMTZ, with a dominant role in med tech innovation in India, will offer a unique partnership for organising this event. This event will provide an excellent platform for not only GITAM and AMTZ’s R&D workforce, but also the scientific community from the nearby states of AP, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha to foster innovative approaches in their scheme of research and mitigate the needs of the students and scholars to make them ready for the industrial needs.

The meeting will also host a session focusing on the core facilities present at the local institutions so that there is awareness and maximal usage of available resources.

Meeting Focus Areas

• Networking sessions to enhance interactions between Young Investigators (YIs)

• Navigating through academia – industry collaboration 

• Skill development for industrial workforce 

• Funding opportunities curated for industrial R&D

• A showcase of core facilities of the region that is open for access for researchers 

• Navigating through challenges faced by early career researchers

• Industrial innovations fostering Make in India initiatives

• Need for industry curated academic coursework towards biomedical innovation

• Nucleating Biotech Startups: Lab to Market

What’s more in RYIM Visakhapatnam? 

• Crafting Your Career (CYC) Workshop for Masters’ students, PhD scholars, Postdoctoral researchers, and early career industry executives

• A total of 5 childcare grants will be offered to any categories of registered participants -GITAM and AMTZ, both have in campus daycare facilities, which can be availed by the participants.

• Flash Talks by Young Investigators (YIs) for showcasing their research works

• Poster Sessions by YIs and Senior PhD Scholars 

• Participation certificates will be given to all the registered participants for RYIM Meeting and CYC Workshop

• Know our city tour

Meeting Format

• Plenary lectures

• Invited talks

• Mentor Talk by EMBO Global Investigator

• Panel discussions

• Flash talks

• Networking sessions

Meeting workshop

An IndiaBioscience-led Crafting Your Career (CYC) workshop 

Applications are invited from scientists and science professionals actively involved in academic and industrial research intersecting with life sciences, preferably from the regions of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha.

Registration is open to:

1. Young Investigators (YIs) or Group leaders, mid-career and senior scientists, faculty fellows, independent investigators (Ramalingaswami fellows, India Alliance fellows, Ramanujan Fellows, DST-Inspire, IYBA awardees, WOS scientists or similar)

2. Educators and undergraduates in colleges and universities

3. Clinicians

4. PhD Scholars and Postdoctoral fellows (Research Associates, Early career fellows, NPDFs)

5. Industry professionals, research and grants managers, science communicators, public engagement professionals, incubation centres and start-up associated researchers, and entrepreneurs

Please note that it is not necessary to be a YIM alumnus to participate in this meeting and there is no age bar for registration. Seats are limited, so please hurry up. 

If you have questions, regarding registration or eligibility, please email ryim2024.visakhapatnam@​gmail.​com.

Registration fees:

To register for this event, please fill this form

Registration deadline: 15 September, 2024.

For payment details, please follow the guidelines given in this link

GITAM employees, students and scholars can avail 18% reduction in the registration fees when registering with a valid GITAM email id.

Accommodation

For booking your accommodation for the meeting, please refer to the following details. Rates are discounted at the Executive Residence and Student Hostel inside GITAM campus.

If requesting accommodation, please select the desired option at the registration page. 

The Crafting Your Career (CYC) workshop by IndiaBioscience will be held from 10:00 ‑1:00 pm on 18 September 2024 at GITAM (deemed to be) University, Visakhapatnam for interested Masters students, PhD scholars, Postdoctoral researchers, and early career industry executives registered for RYIM Visakhapatnam.

IndiaBioscience workshop trainers: Arushi Batra and Avijit Banik.

If you are interested in attending the CYC workshop, please indicate this in the registration form for the meeting. Participants will be selected on a first-come, first-serve basis. IndiaBioscience will aim to include as many participants as possible.

More information on CYC can be found here.

All IndiaBioscience Meetings, Workshops, and Conferences are subject to a Conference Code of Conduct.

IndiaBioscience is dedicated to providing an inclusive and harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, caste, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any form. All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. We expect participants to follow these rules at all event venues (virtual or physical) and event-related social events.

Speakers and Presenters: Sexual language and imagery are not appropriate for the event venue, including talks and posters. Sexist, racist or exclusionary jokes are not acceptable.

Participants: Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, caste, religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.

Sponsors: Sponsors are also subject to the anti-harassment policy.

Virtual events: Attendees, Speakers, Trainers and Event Organisers are required to keep all e communications — emails, online presentations, webinar chat/Q&A sessions etc — professional and respectful. As with the physical events, at online seminars/​workshops/​courses and associated correspondence, sexual language/​imagery and harassment are not appropriate and will not be tolerated.

Action: Attendees asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately. If an attendee engages in behaviour that violates this code of conduct, the conference organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender, expelling him or her from the premises with no refund or expelling them from the virtual event (i.e. webinar, workshop, course etc).

Conference staff members are there to help participants contact appropriate authorities, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the conference. We value your attendance.

Contact: If you are harassed, have noticed that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact: ryim@​indiabioscience.​org

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