Workshop 9
MFCEM WORKSHOP #9
By
Dr. Sanjay Kumar Mishra, Senior Advisor, Dept of Biotechnology, Government of India
TITLE: Funding and Career Opportunities in STEM in India
An online interactive session was organized on 18th May with Dr. Sanjay Mishra, Senior Advisor, DBT, Gov. of India. The interaction session was aimed at students and post-docs to make aware numerous funding opportunities and Career Options in the field of STEM in India
Dr. Sanjay Kumar Mishra has a rich experience in science management and administration, serving currently as a senior advisor, DBT, prior to which he served as an advisor, Dept of Science and Technology (DST) Government of India.
Dr Sanjay Mishra has to his credit two decades of teaching, research and academic management experience from India, the UK, the USA and Australia along with 10 years of working in Government of India. He has experience in strategic planning, designing, and implementation of policy, programs in areas of education, science, technology, innovation, STEM, gender advancement, climate change and biotechnology, often in partnership with industry, research institutions, non-government-organizations and academia.
Workshop 8
Fun & frustration: navigating career paths in science
By
Prof. Sandhya Kaushika, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai
8th March 2024
Prof. Sandhya Kaushika is neuroscientist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental research, Mumbai. She is a recipient of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (USA) Early Career Award. Her lab’s interest lies in the field of cellular neurobiology, investigating the processes of axonal cargo biogenesis and transport and their impact on neuronal function and behaviour of the organism
Workshop 7
MFCEM Inauguration and Research Symposium
6th & 7th November
With an aim to facilitate breakthroughs in biomedical engineering innovations, IIT Kanpur has set up the Mehta Family Center for Engineering in Medicine with the generous support of Mr. Rahul Mehta of the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta Family foundation (MFF). The center was inaugurated on 6th November 2023 with a two-day inaugural research symposium. The research symposium had exhilarating talks by global stalwarts in the three focus areas of research at MFCEM, namely, Molecular Medicine, Regenerative Medicine and Digital Medicine. Day 1 of symposium commenced with a keynote address by Dr. Gang Bao, the Chair of Bioengineering at Rice University, on nanomedicine and genome editing based approaches for disease therapies, followed by Aurobindo Nath Bose Entrepreneurship Lecture on Molecular Medicine in Oncology practice by talk by R. Venkat of Karkinos Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., a technology-led oncology platform.
Workshop 6
immunitoAI: A Life Science Entrepreneurship
By
Dr Aridni Shah, Co-founder & CEO immunitoAI
30th September 2023
Dr Aridni Shah, has a PhD in Biological Sciences from NCBS, TIFR and is a Co-Founder and CEO of immunitoAI along with Trisha Chatterjee who has an expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. At immunitoAI novel Antibody Therapeutics with pre-defined drug properties, are discovered, entirely using AI. The AI-platform is built to be capable of generating de novo antibody and antibody fragments against any epitope and does not depend upon a biological source, for the lead molecule. immunitoAI has been selected to participate in the TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield, 2023 in San Francisco.
The Bhupat & Jyoti Mehta Family Foundation
MFCEM at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is generously supported by the Mehta Family Foundation.