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2024 Khorana Scholarship Finalists Selected

The finalists for this year’s Khorana Scholars Program were selected on February 10, 2024. Upon official release of their names, WINStep Forward looks forward to working with the finalists to place them in cutting edge U.S. research laboratories for their summer internships.

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Khorana Program Open for Summer 2023! Deadline to Apply January 15th

The Khorana Program has returned from the hiatus of the pandemic. Apply here today and share it with your friends or family! On the 100th anniversary of Har Gobind Khorana’s birth, we have the pleasure of inviting applications for the prestigious Khorana Program for Scholars. The mission of the program is to nurture talent and

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Khorana’s Influence on Siddharth’s Study Choices

How the Khorana program helped Siddharth make up his mind to study the human mind! Dr. Siddharth Raina is a 2020 Khorana Program alumnus and a medical graduate from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, India. He is passionate about Psychiatric medicine and wants to contribute to translational research. In this blog

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How the Khorana Summer Internship Program Transformed Sucheta’s Scientific Journey

  Sucheta Ghosh, a Khorana Program alumnus (2018), is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in Basel, Switzerland. She completed her schooling in Jamshedpur, followed by a B.Tech from Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, and an M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi before starting her doctoral program

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Crafting an effective statement of purpose

Diya Binoy Joseph, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center The statement of purpose is an important part of your application package. It is often a requirement for applications to PhD programs or internships. A well-crafted and targeted statement of purpose can really help your application stand out. For highly competitive programs with hundreds

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SOP Sample From Khorana Alum

Here is a sample of an SOP by Diya Joseph. Here is a link to her other article about navigating an internship.    “What is life?” This question posed by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger in his book of the same name sparked the imaginations of physicists, chemists and biologists in the 1940s. It led James

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The Covid-19 Research: How India Responds?

Since the advent of first reported case of the Covid-19 or SARS-CoV-2 viral infection in India, the scientific response against this worldwide pandemic has been quite significant. The need of time has resulted into an immense scientific polarization towards the Covid-19 specific research. Now India ranks second with 5.73 million total numbers of cases amongst

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Navigating a Summer Internship

Diya Binoy Joseph, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center Congratulations! If you are reading this, you are most likely about to embark on a summer research internship or are interested in applying for one. In the former case, your hard work on applications has paid off and you are preparing for an exciting

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Field Trips in the Time of COVID-19

It is quite an understatement to say that the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 disrupted our lives. As a field-based researcher, I had to cancel all my fieldwork activities and instead embrace the lifestyle that I clearly wanted to avoid when I started on my career track: sit at a desk and stare at a screen.

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Iqra Shahzad Blog 2019

I was in my Evolutionary Dynamics class, learning about the Evolution of Cooperative Strategies, when my phone buzzed, there I saw a notification from Khorana Program and it said “Dear Iqra Shahzad, I am pleased to inform you…”, and suddenly the insipidity of the day, all but vanished. Of all the emails that I had

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