The COVID-19 pandemic brought together scientists and experts from various institutions to build solutions to prevent, test, treat, or mitigate COVID-19 disease and the socioeconomic havoc that the pandemic wreaked on us. In this interview, we speak with faculty scientists to understand their COVID-related innovations and how they went about executing or deploying the same.
The Infosys Prize awardees this year were felicitated on 7 January, 2023. They represent the different disciplines of Engineering and Computer Science, Humanities, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences. The awardees have been recognised and lauded for extraordinary contributions in their respective fields.
Receiving a certificate of excellence after an immersive learning experience or a job well done can be quite gratifying. But is a free-for-all distribution of certificates without evaluating the recipients justified? Are we chasing (or worse, fueling) a culture where certificates seem to trump learning gains? This article highlights the systematic spread of falsehoods associated with certificates in the Indian education system and the ways in which students can be protected from it.
The Crafting Your Career (CYC) program started at IndiaBioscience in 2019. Its goal was to raise awareness among life science students and postdoctoral researchers about the different science careers in India, to help them identify their true calling and develop skills to navigate their career paths with confidence. Earlier this year, we did a survey to assess its impact on the participants of the program and received an overwhelming response. Here is the story of the genesis of CYC and its impact.
In the 6th conversation of the 'IN CONVERSATION with IGNITE' series, Shahid Jameel, a Fellow at OCIS and Green Templeton College, Oxford, talks to a well-known American researcher, author, speaker, and consultant James J. Collins who is considered the “Father of Synthetic Biology”.
Ignite Life Science Foundation, Cactus Communications, and IndiaBioscience have come together to co-host this live online event. In a relaxed and conversational format, the interlocutor for each session will uncover the background story of the work and life of an eminent scientist.
The guest of the fifth event in the series is Prabhavathi Fernandes. She is the Chairperson of the National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB), US and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP).
Ignite Life Science Foundation, Cactus Communications, and IndiaBioscience have come together to co-host this live online event. In a relaxed and conversational format, the interlocutor for each session will uncover the background story of the work and life of an eminent scientist.
The guest of the fourth event in the series is Uma Ramakrishnan who is a Professor of Ecology and Evolution at NCBS, TIFR.