Madhurima Kahali, marketing team head at Taylor & Francis Group, talks about her experience transitioning from academia to the publishing industry. In this '10 Women, 10 Questions' interview, Kahali discusses her career trajectory, starting from being an editor at a leading global publisher to becoming the head of a marketing team.
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Dhananjay Huilgol, a Senior Research Associate at Duke University, United States of America (USA), studied the progenitor basis of neuronal diversification in the mammalian brain during his postdoctoral training. In this article, he shares his story of the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) Young Investigator Grant.
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It is perhaps too well known to students, parents and educators alike that the Indian higher education system is highly competitive. While some competition may be unavoidable, the question is - are some aspects of this competitive environment unnecessary, or even toxic? In this article, biology researcher and educator Anil Kumar Challa, from the Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi NCR presents a perspective on why a collaborative environment is better than a competitive one.
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Purnati Khuntia is a postdoctoral fellow at Tamal Das’ lab, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Hyderabad. Her research focuses on hair follicle morphogenesis in mouse skin epithelium. She has recently been awarded the 2024 Rowland Fellowship by the Rowland Institute at Harvard. In this article, she shares her story of securing the Rowland Fellowship.
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In this twelfth article, as part of community voices for the international Grants Awareness Program (iGAP), Debabrata Dutta shares his success story and the experience with securing the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) by Horizon Europe for his project WHEAT-Doctor at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK.
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How are researchers from the Global South doing in terms of their counterparts in the West? From limited visibility due to many reasons to the complex issue of restricted mobility, this article by Debraj Manna, a PhD student at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, discusses the multifaceted factors affecting the scientific community from Global South.
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At the 16th Young Investigators’ Meeting (YIM 2024) in Bhopal, IndiaBioscience asked representatives from a diverse range of institutions and universities across India some quick questions about faculty hiring. Let’s take a look at their responses!
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