The afternoon of 10th January 2019, was one of the best moments of my life that I could never forget. I was in college, in my lab, waiting for some samples to centrifuge when I checked my phone. A Gmail notification blinked on the phone screen that struck me. It was an email from the
Read MoreWINStep wanted to highlight two of our former scholars who have gone on to amaze us in what they are creating. Soundarya Balasubramani was a 2016 SN Bose Scholar who had her internship at the University of Wisconsin Madison. When asked to explain her time since her internship, she shared “The three month internship at
Read MoreBy Cheshta Bhatia We, as humans, are hard wired with the urge to know everything that life holds for us. We like to plan our every action, think about the reactions life can have to those actions, and sketch out how we would manage those situations. This is something very fundamental to human behaviour. In
Read MoreBy Amartya Pradhan and Manusmriti Agarwal The outbreak that gained a passport around the world in less than 80 days Coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, following its outbreak in November 2019. Preliminary studies trace back to a zoonotic transfer
Read MoreWritten by Anasuya Chatterjee and Indranil Ghosh Wildlife exploitation as the primary origin of viral outbreaks : Mankind has witnessed several deadly viral outbreaks in recent years- the SARS outbreak. MERS epidemic, Ebola virus outbreak, NIPAH epidemic and the worst of them all- the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
Read MoreI was a Khorana scholar in the summer of 2013 while pursuing my undergraduate degree in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. During this period, I interned in the lab of Prof. Aseem Ansari at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Simply saying that the Khorana program was a turning point in my
Read MoreWritten by: -Abhishek Kumar, Khorana 2019 Scholar Chief Editor, Biotechticle Research Group. Originally found here. Coronavirus pandemic has shuttered shops, schools, colleges, transportation and even countries. United Nations has declared that all of humanity is at risk and requested global action [1]. This outbreak has affected billions of people worldwide and is predicted to cause
Read MoreHello friends of WINStep Forward! We wanted to reach out to you all regarding the current pandemic of COVID-19. Our team cares about your health and the health of those around you. This global pandemic is in both the United States and India, hitting both countries hard. We hope that you are remaining safe and
Read MoreI am Priya Srivastava (Khorana Scholar 2018), I went to the Ohio State University for the internship in 2018 to carry out an 8 weeks research. My life has completely changed from the day I got selected for this very prestigious fellowship. I worked with one of the very cool and great RNA scientist Prof.
Read MoreThe second week of January will remain forever etched in my memory. I had gone out shopping with one of my friends and somehow felt like checking my mails for once. One of them read “I am pleased to inform you that you have been provisionally short-listed for the prestigious Khorana program for Scholars 2019.
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