In this day and age, the demand for a reliable healthcare infrastructure  has rapidly evolved, the reason why more and more healthcare business  startup companies have dramatically changed throughout the years. Being  competitive in this journey is one of the keys towards a successful  business.  It is also important to know your potential business challenges in order  to address them fast. Doing this will give you more time to focus on  your business goals and operations in the long run.  Sessions facilitated by Narendra Chirmule, CEO at SymphonyTech Biologics Subscribe to Biopatrika Newsletter on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/biopatrika-6915078341121191936/    Credits:  Promotion audio by: Preeti Singh  Promotion content by: Charu Gupta  Managed by Vikramsingh Gujar, Charu Gupta, Rajashree and Shruthy Seshadrinathan Editing by: Virender Singh   Music: Aditya Sutar (https://www.facebook.com/AdityaFlute/)   #Mentorship #entrepreneurship #Industry #CEO #founder

Avishek Pal is Scientific Communications Director, Cell & Gene at  Novartis Oncology. He is passionate about scientific communications,  data transparency initiatives and publication ethics, to name a few  translating his passion into action. He has conducted various training  sessions and workshops and been involved in designing the clinical  research curriculum for various educational Institutes. 

 Key takeaways 1. Never close the door completely is what I have learnt. 2. I enjoy particularly converting regulatory items into scientific  publication writers. 3. It's a matter of identifying what works for you.  4. Mentorship is key.   Key Questions 1. How do we kind of take our scientific communication to the next  level? 2. What is the true value of your publication? 3. How to prepare for CMPP certification? 4. Recruiters perspective while hiring the candidate for scientific  communication kind of role?   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 #scicomm #medicalwriting  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 Lieutenant General (Dr) Madhuri Kanitkar, PVSM, AVSM, VSM is a  retired General Officer in the Indian Army. Dr. Kanitkar is currently  Vice-Chancellor of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences. She is  the third woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a  Three-star rank and also India's first pediatric nephrology unit of Army  Medical Corps.    Key takeaways 1. My definition of a map is you need a mentor, you need the correct  attitude and you need passion. 2. Passion doesn't come in right, it's something that you want from  within you to get the best out of it.  3. And at the end of the day, I think it's your competence, it's your  competence which really matters and your capability and your own  confidence about yourself. 4. The mentor can be a good listener and probably give you options. 5. Mentor is not a constant person.   Key Questions 1. Why did you join the armed forces?  2. Why have you not gone abroad? 3. Why is it okay to be less than perfect?   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 #Army #Doctor   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 Ankur Bhatnagar is General Manager at Biocon.  Key takeaways 1. When I was studying there I realized that it is very exciting to see  how biology and engineering can come together.  2. Started the journey both at the job, at the personal level without  anything.  3. The reason why I changed my mind not to pursue PhD? 4. I thought that there is some meaning to the work that I'm doing. It  is affecting somebody else, right.  5. Thing is for science, you can go and try and understand. You can read  and if you read that, then you know this is the right way of doing it.  But when it comes to people, there is no right way, right.  Key Questions 1. Why does everybody have to go outside for a PhD. Is there no scope in  India? 2. Why to be in my own field I still have to do PhD? 3. How do you manage challenges? 4. How do you define success for your own career?  Connect with Ankur Bhatnagar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankur-bhatnagar-5994645/  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 #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/)

Vijay Chandru, Founder & Director, Strand Life Sciences,  Commissioner at Lancet Citizen's Commission on reimagining India's  health System  Key takeaways 1. What it takes to become the academic entrepreneurs, still being  professors and starting companies. 2. Cricket, innings and career 3. Importance of Interdisciplinary Research 4. When you do sidestepping or you're moving sideways from one  discipline to another, you have to learn everything and you have to hang  out with people who will teach you and you can ask questions. 5. Really most of the entrepreneurs have started later in life. Right.  So you're in a position where you can take a little bit of failure.   Key Questions 1. How to start your startup? 2. How to move disciplines? 3. How to find an advisor? 4. Why do companies hire PhD?  Connect with Vijay Chandru on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijaychandru/  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 #RnD #Industry

We have with us the vice President for product development at Biofusion  Therapeutics as our guest. A well known name in the scientific and  industry circles, Jyoti Iyer was instrumental in bringing the world's  first biosimilar traps to Trastuzumab to life. And she doesn't stop  there. Beyond being an advocate for better medicine, she has adopted an  orphanage in Bangalore, where she spends a considerable amount of  volunteer time. You know of her, but now you will know her.   Key takeaways Success is just a moment that you have to enjoy and share with everyone,  and then you have to move along. Going to step back for some time and rethink what priorities are. My life is my message and that really I felt very powerful.   Key Questions 1. How is it to join Industry immediately after PhD? 2. What to choose: Postdoc or Industry? 3. Whether to go abroad or stay back in India.  4. Role of Mentor in career decisions.  5. Humbleness, Spirituality and Leadership.  Connect with Jyoti Iyer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jyotiiyer/  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 #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/)

You are doing PhD from outside Home country and confused whether to go  back or stay in foreign country. Feel like home calling after watching  'Swades' movie?  Main nahi manta hamara desh duniya ka sabse mahaan desh hai. Lekin yeh  zaroor manta hoon ki hum mein kabliyat hai, taqat hai, apne desh ko  mahaan banane ki – Swades  Listen to our guest Karthik Ramani, Associate vice President for product  development at Biocon Biologics to know how he decided to leave USA and  join Biocon.   Key takeaways Don't try to basically please people.   Key Questions 1. Is there any plan when it comes to recruitment for people who are  doing postdoc or PhD from outside India? 2. What are your learnings from the mentors that you have had in your  life, and what is your take on being an ideal mentor?  Connect with Karthik Ramani on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karthik-ramani-8526336/  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 #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/)

Episode 1: Our guest Rohini Deshpande is Vice President, Drug Substance  Technologies at Amgen.   Key takeaways 1. I think just recognizing and being self aware that you're working  with a team is really important. 2. If you want to make something happen, you cannot be in the backseat. 3. Communication, I would say, in addition to everything we talked  about, is a very important asset. It can be a differentiator and I don't  take anything for granted.   Key questions addressed  1. Has pursuing to postdoctoral research, has it helped you and your  career in the industry? 2. How can we bridge that gap between the industry and Academy? 3. How we can prepare ourselves better for the industry? 4. When you go and work in a company and become a leader, what you have  to change personally to handle the leadership and not more into science? 5. What is an advice you would give to a student, like something you  would want to tell your younger self?  Connect with Rohini Deshpande on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohini-deshpande-ab1a227/  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 #RnD #Industry  #Industry #RnD #Mentorship  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/)

Launch of the YouTube Channel "Pies of Life." We will add a new pie (New video with new guest) every week for you to  get insights into thee life of professionals and learn from their career  path. We hope that you will enjoy this channel and join us for future  sessions.  

Join us every Tuesday at 8:30 pm (IST)  Sessions facilitated by Narendra Chirmule, CEO at SymphonyTech Biologics 

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Credits:  Editing by: Virender Singh  

Music: Aditya Sutar (https://www.facebook.com/AdityaFlute/) 

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With an education spanning psychology, child development, mental  retardation, counselling and family therapy from Lady Irwin College and  IGNOU; Ritu Gupta is a front runner in the fields of counselling and  learning disabilities in India.  

A mental health advocate, she taught at Delhi university before spending  a decade with a special school, Sankalp, a unit of one of the largest  NGOs in India- NWWA or Naval wive’s welfare association, as a special  educator, counsellor and vocational educator. She continued to explore  the field of counselling at the naval school and dealt with specific  behavioural problems such as dyslexia and hyperactivity; as well as  adolescent issues.  

For the past 8 years, she has been a counsellor for young children and  their parents at DPS International school. In her time to spare, she  sings, holds the home front for the Indian Navy and  counsels academics,  specially biologists, who need guidance and someone to listen to their  concerns. A very warm welcome to you Ritu.  

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Host: Charu Gupta, Pragya Gupta 

Editing: Nikhil Tulsian and Virender Singh 

Social: Albertha Joseph-Alexander  

Music: Aditya Sutar (https://www.facebook.com/AdityaFlute/)  

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