SciKonnect Podcast

Bollywood typical Meme-based scicomm talk on 'Steps towards a happy  & productive PhD' by Mohit Kumar Jolly, Assistant Professor at  Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore.   Context: Am I doing the right experiments? Am I asking the right questions? Have I  published enough? Which conference can I go to next? What should I  present at journal club? The questions keep coming and the answers keep  drifting away. I understand and I have been in your shoes.  First of all congratulations on signing up for this journey, it is not  for the faint-hearted! Maybe you are just getting started or finished  with qualifiers or proposed a thesis topic; at every point of the Ph.D.,  you are faced with difficult questions and doubts. I hope this  meme-based talk will help you understand Steps towards a Happy and  Productive Ph.D.  Key take home Message: "The output of a PhD is not the thesis, but it's YOU"  Credits:  Promotion audio by: Preeti Singh  Promotion content by: Charu Gupta  Managed by Vikramsingh Gujar, Charu Gupta, and Shruthy Seshadrinathan Editing by: Virender Singh  Music: Aditya Sutar (https://www.facebook.com/AdityaFlute/)   #Mentorship, #PhD #Scicomm

Join us with Harit Mohan founder & CEO of Signicent LLP. He has  spent more than a decade solving problems and overcoming hurdles faced  by technology and research organizations. He with his company has been a  technology and IPR consultant for more than 450 businesses globally,  spread across 15 countries, a TEDx speaker, technology and IP expert,  startup mentor, and an avid traveler.   Connect with Harit Mohan on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohanharit/  Key takeaways 1. I cannot keep giving my rest of my life serving somebody else.  2. What is even more important is how it's going to sell them because a  good production setting on your kitchen table or on your workshop or on  your office will not bring you money and you have to sell.  3. Start early and be reckless  4. If you just take decisions and never follow up with that, it's even  more difficult to make a wrong decision. 5. There is a whole different world beyond the books. You need to  explore that.  Key Questions 1. How will you justify job shifts? 2. What kept you motivated in difficult times? 3. What strategies did you use to market your business?  4. How to manage a startup?  Join us every Tuesday at 8:30 pm (IST)  Sessions facilitated by Narendra Chirmule, CEO at SymphonyTech Biologics  To learn about Biopatrika Industry Mentorship Program  Visit our website: https://biopatrika.com/   Credits:  Promotion audio by: Preeti Singh  Promotion content by: Charu Gupta  Managed by Vikramsingh Gujar, Charu Gupta, Suniana Singh and Shruthy Seshadrinathan Editing by: Virender Singh  Music: Aditya Sutar (https://www.facebook.com/AdityaFlute/)   #mentorship #entrepreneurship #startup

Ever wondered who decides what to put on the #cover of a #journal?  Demystifying this mystery, Dr. Alibek Galeev, a Postdoctoral researcher  at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Biology, gives us the cheat  sheet to #publishing multiple papers in your PhD and even getting them on the cover page.  Credits:  Promotion audio by: Preeti Singh  Promotion content by: Charu Gupta  Managed by Vikramsingh Gujar, Charu Gupta, and Shruthy Seshadrinathan Editing by: Virender Singh  Music: Aditya Sutar (https://www.facebook.com/AdityaFlute/)   #coverpage #paper #illustration #piesoflife

Prashant Nikam is Vice President, Managing Director Australia & New Zealand, MSD.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashant-nikam-509a6/   Key takeaways 1. As you get older, you start thinking more consciously about your decision 2. There are mentors in life that give you insights about you that can change your life.  3. I've always made my decisions on career on these three reasons, three factors or three vectors  Key Questions 1. Why to diversify your skillset? 2. Why MBA?  3. How do you decide the endpoint?  Join us every Tuesday at 8:30 pm (IST)  Sessions facilitated by Narendra Chirmule, CEO at SymphonyTech Biologics  Credits:  Promotion audio by: Preeti Singh  Promotion content by: Charu Gupta  Managed by Vikramsingh Gujar, Charu Gupta, Suniana Singh and Shruthy Seshadrinathan Editing by: Virender Singh  Music: Aditya Sutar (https://www.facebook.com/AdityaFlute/)   #Mentorship #Biotech #industry #Business #Mentor

We have with us Meena Subramanyam, the Vice President, Global Program  Leader and Conditional T cell Engager Platform Lead, Takeda Oncology as  our guest. Dr. Subramanyam is a Biopharmaceutical executive with  extensive expertise in therapeutic drug and companion diagnostics  development. She has broad experience in implementing streamlined  strategies as a Global team leader to transition candidate therapies  from discovery through clinical development for regulatory approval and  commercialization in several therapeutic areas.   Key takeaways 1. Importance of Networking 2. Opportunistic 3. Capitalize on the experiences 4. Think about that big picture. 5. All of us continue to learn. It's a question of what we are learning.  Key Questions 1. Major challenge that you faced while maybe changing a field from one  expertise to another. 2. After you took that step down, was there any priority on growth? 3. What should I look for in a great leader?  Connect with Meena Subramanyam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meena-subramanyam-8644624/  Sessions facilitated by Narendra Chirmule, CEO at SymphonyTech Biologics  To learn about Biopatrika Industry Mentorship Program Visit our website: https://biopatrika.com/  #Mentorship #RnD #Industry  Credits:  Promotion audio by: Preeti Singh  Promotion content by: Charu Gupta  Managed by Vikramsingh Gujar, Charu Gupta, Suniana Singh and Shruthy Seshadrinathan Editing by: Virender Singh  Music: Aditya Sutar (https://www.facebook.com/AdityaFlute/)

Dr. Bruce Levine, Barbara and Edward Netter Professor in Cancer Gene  Therapy, is the Founding Director of the Clinical Cell and Vaccine  Production Facility in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory  Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine,  University of Pennsylvania. He received a B.A. Biology from Penn and a  Ph.D. in Immunology and Infectious Diseases from Johns Hopkins.  First-in-human adoptive immunotherapy trials include the first use of a  lentiviral vector, the first infusions of gene edited cells, and the  first use of lentivirally-modified cells to treat cancer. Dr. Levine is  co-inventor of the first FDA approved gene therapy Kymriah, chimeric  antigen receptor T cells for leukemia and lymphoma, licensed to  Novartis. Dr. Levine is co-inventor on 30 issued US patents and  co-author of 200 manuscripts and book chapters with a Google Scholar  citation h-index of 98. He is a Co-Founder of Tmunity Therapeutics, and  of Capstan Therapeutics both spinouts of the University of Pennsylvania.  Dr. Levine is a recipient of the William Osler Patient Oriented  Research Award, the Wallace H. Coulter Award for Healthcare Innovation,  the National Marrow Donor Program-Be The Match ONE Forum 2020 Dennis  Confer Innovate Award, serves as President of the International Society  for Cell and Gene Therapy, and serves on the Board of Directors of the  Alliance for Regenerative Medicine. He has written for Scientific  American and Wired and has been interviewed by the NY Times, Wall Street  Journal, Washington Post, NPR, Time Magazine, National Geographic,  Bloomberg, Forbes, BBC, and other international media outlets.    Twitter: @BLLPHD Web: https://pathbio.med.upenn.edu/cvpf/site/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-levine-9976859/  Join us every Tuesday at 8:30 pm (IST)  Sessions facilitated by Narendra Chirmule, CEO at SymphonyTech Biologics  Credits:  Promotion audio by: Preeti Singh  Promotion content by: Charu Gupta  Managed by Vikramsingh Gujar, Charu Gupta, Suniana Singh and Shruthy Seshadrinathan Editing by: Virender Singh  Music: Aditya Sutar (https://www.facebook.com/AdityaFlute/)    #mentorship #academia #research

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is Founder and Executive Chairperson at Biocon & Biocon Biologics.  Connect with Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmazumdarshaw/  Key takeaways 1. I think the real opportunity is immuno oncology because the immune  system is an amazing system. 2. All of us have to be lifelong learners.  3. Life is about making sure that you follow the science. Life is about  understanding what you're doing. You cannot be panicking, you cannot be  ad hoc, and you cannot be irrational.  4. Please question, please query. Please find answers. And please be  problem solvers. Don't expect everyone to tell you what to do. 5. Mentorship is about sharing knowledge. It's about bouncing ideas of  each other, and it's about being inspired.   Key Questions 1. How to deal with setbacks? 2. Who can become your Mentor? 3. What are challenges for women leaders in industry? 4. Why should one focus on physical and mental health?  Join us every Tuesday at 8:30 pm (IST)  Sessions facilitated by Narendra Chirmule, CEO at SymphonyTech Biologics  To learn about Biopatrika Industry Mentorship Program Visit our website:  https://biopatrika.com/  #Mentorship #entrepreneurship #biotech  Credits:  Promotion audio by: Preeti Singh  Promotion content by: Charu Gupta  Managed by Vikramsingh Gujar, Charu Gupta, Suniana Singh and Shruthy Seshadrinathan Editing by: Virender Singh  Music: Aditya Sutar (https://www.facebook.com/AdityaFlute/)

Ever wondered what you can spin out of silk? Join us as we find out how Vivek Mishra spun out start-up Fibroheal  where innovations using silk can make a difference in wound healing and  get to know more about his life story. He shares his journey from a  small village to a successful startup which holds promise for farmers as  well as doctors and patients. Connect with Vivek Mishra on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-mishra-11a7b433/  Key takeaways 1. Accept and move on 2. Do not become emotional 3. Passion and learn to letting go 4. Purpose and impact 5. Not giving up 6. Keep calm/ Keep revisiting 7. Don't forget to unwind 8. Skills can be taught but human qualities are difficult to be taught  9. At young age you need to look for a mentor, because that is the time  when success can get into your head immediately, even slight success,  and that can derail the whole thing.  Key Questions 1.  Are regulators a black box? 2. Do you need technical expertise for a successful startup? 3. How to find your way to work that keeps you going? 4. Role of academia in startups?  Join us every Tuesday at 8:30 pm (IST)  Sessions facilitated by Narendra Chirmule, CEO at SymphonyTech Biologics   To learn about Biopatrika Industry Mentorship Program Visit our website:  https://biopatrika.com/  #Mentorship #entrepreneurship #startup   Credits:  Promotion audio by: Preeti Singh  Promotion content by: Charu Gupta  Managed by Vikramsingh Gujar, Charu Gupta, Suniana Singh and Shruthy Seshadrinathan Editing by: Virender Singh  Music: Aditya Sutar (https://www.facebook.com/AdityaFlute/)

Our Guest Prof. Thomas G. Sors is Assistant Director of the Purdue  Institute of Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease. Get to  know how a #plant biologist became the Asst Director for #inflammation #immunology  Purdue University Thomas G. Sors opens up about this roller coaster  ride. When not teaching, he's trying to save the world by building an  in-pocket #covid19 diagnosis sensor through his company IdentifySensors biologics.  Connect with Prof. Thomas Sors on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-g-sors-b09bba17/  Key takeaways 1.  I've been inspired and very much moved by the people I've interacted  with in my life.  2. We were part of bringing cryoelectron microscopy to India.  3. You have to be courageous, and courageous means that you have to have  a certain image of yourself that doesn't matter what anybody thinks or  says.  Key Questions 1.  Do you feel that your expertise in plant or the plant based  molecular science that you study gives you more insight on some matters?   2. What does it take to get a postdoctoral fellowship or a graduate  program in Purdue University?   Join us every Tuesday at 8:30 pm (IST)  Sessions facilitated by Narendra Chirmule, CEO at SymphonyTech Biologics  To learn about Biopatrika Industry Mentorship Program Visit our website:  https://biopatrika.com/ #Mentorship #entrepreneurship #academia   Credits:  Promotion audio by: Preeti Singh  Promotion content by: Charu Gupta  Managed by Vikramsingh Gujar, Charu Gupta, Suniana Singh and Shruthy Seshadrinathan Editing by: Virender Singh  Music: Aditya Sutar (https://www.facebook.com/AdityaFlute/)

Our guest Kavitha Iyer Rodrigues is co-founder and CEO at Zumutor Biologics Inc. Connect with Kavitha on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kavitha-iyer-rodrigues-8b8b29b/  Key takeaways 1. Thankfully, I've been surrounded by my parents who are from home  teaching.  2. Initially, you have to earn a lot of money in biotech before you can  actually see any results.  3. I think the incubator ecosystems become important, especially when  you want to start off something. 4. Whether you have a PhD or don't have a PhD, the experience, whether  you work in a lab or a company is that and nobody can take that away.   Key Questions 1. What kind of strategies did you implement in your environment to help  you transition from being a scientist? 2. Is an MBA needed for a successful startup? 3. What was your biggest challenge while speaking to investors? 4. Do you think PhD is an important criteria for the scientist post in  your form?  Join us every Tuesday at 8:30 pm (IST)  Sessions facilitated by Narendra Chirmule, CEO at SymphonyTech Biologics  To learn about Biopatrika Industry Mentorship Program Visit our website:  https://biopatrika.com/  #mentorship  #entrepreneurship #startup   Credits:  Promotion audio by: Preeti Singh  Promotion content by: Charu Gupta  Managed by Vikramsingh Gujar, Charu Gupta, Suniana Singh and Shruthy Seshadrinathan Editing by: Virender Singh  Music: Aditya Sutar (https://www.facebook.com/AdityaFlute/)