This article is the second in a two-part series reporting on the proceedings of the 16th Young Investigators’ Meeting (YIM 2024) held in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, from 11 to 15 March 2024. In the second part of this report, we discuss the takeaways from interactive ‘Ask Us Anything’ panel discussion, insights from the ice-breaker session, and the proceedings from the PDF satellite meeting that followed the YIM 2024.

The 16th edition of the annual Young Investigators’ Meeting (YIM 2024) was held in the central Indian city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, from 11 to 15 March 2024. Around 120 young investigators and postdoctoral fellows, along with representatives from funding agencies, mentors, and institutional representatives, attended the meeting for special talks, networking sessions, workshops, panel discussion, and poster presentations.

The seventh (and last) of the RYIMs for 2023-2024, RYIM Pune was held at Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed to be University Medical College on 16-17 February 2024, with a pre-meeting Crafting Your Career (CYC) workshop from IndiaBioscience on 15 February.

RYIM Hyderabad was the sixth Regional Young Investigators’ Meeting for the year 2023-2024, held from 02 to 03 February 2024, at Mahindra University. The meeting's focal point was the theme ‘industry-academia collaborations to translate research to products.’ In this report, Ankita Rathore, Program Manager-Science Communication, IndiaBioscience, highlights the key takeaways from the various talks and discussions held during RYIM Hyderabad.

The third Regional Young Investigator Meeting (RYIM) 2023-24 was held in the serene and picturesque city of Bhubaneswar at the (DBT)-Institute of Life Sciences (DBT-ILS), from 4 to 6 December 2023. Based on the theme ‘Fostering academia-industry crosstalk’, the RYIM Bhubaneswar introduced young investigators (YIs) and researchers to the idea of building impactful collaborations between academia and industry.

The first Regional Young Investigators' Meeting (RYIM) 2023-2024 took place at CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow, from September 13 to 15. RYIM Lucknow featured a remarkable diversity among attendees from various research backgrounds, aligning perfectly with the theme 'connect, collaborate, and accomplish'.