Congratulations to all of our 2019 SN Bose Scholars! Aarush Gupta from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee Abha Kumari from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur Abhijit Pravin Chaudhari from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Banaras Hindu University Aditya Varma Yalamanchili from Indian Institute of Information Tehnology, Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM), Chennai Agam Gupta
Read MoreWINStep Forward and Namaste Madison recently hosted a Meet and Greet in Madison, WI for the new Consul General of the Chicago Consulate, Shri Sudhakar Dalela. The new appointed Consul has been meeting with the regional Indian diaspora on his travels across the midwestern states under the Chicago Consulate’s jurisdiction. His first visit to Madison,
Read More2018 Khorana Scholar Dibin Baby Co-Authors a Paper at University of Maryland Improving plant genome editing with high-fidelity xCas9 and non-canonical PAM-targeting Cas9-NG Abstract Engineered SpCas9 variants, namely xCas9 and Cas9-NG, have shown promising potential on improving targeting specificity and broadening the targeting range. In this study, we evaluated these Cas9 variants in the model
Read MoreWINStep Forward wants to congratulate and call to attention two former US Bose Scholars, Hannah Lider (2015) and Kayla Huemer (2016) for both being awarded a US Fulbright Research Grant in the Fall of 2018! For Hannah, this will be her third time returning to India. Hannah went back to India for her second time
Read More2018 Khorana Scholar Divya Choudhary interning at Harvard John A Paulson SEAS in the Doyle lab working on two projects. The first project will be published soon and the second project’s research abstract won an award in Diabetes Technology meeting. The project was titled “Activity Detection and Activity Level Categorization in Free-Living Subjects with Type 1 Diabetes.”
Read MoreIt starts from the day when I receive the surprising delight from winstep forward regarding my selection for this program. For any Indian student it is the golden dream to go to US for Grad school, but when it is for summer internship, it becomes much more exciting. The 79 days of my life in
Read More150 Sci-ROI members attend YIM2016, Chicago A three-day Young Investigators Meeting – Chicago (YIM-C) was held at the Consulate of India, Chicago and the prestigious University of Chicago with about 150 young Indian scientists gathering in the windy city to discuss ways for getting the best of minds back to their country, India. The first
Read MorePress Release YIM-C 2017 Science and Research Opportunities in India (Sci-ROI; https://sciroi.net/) a volunteer not-for-profit organization composed of research scientists, postdoctoral scholars, students, engineers and entrepreneurs, successfully held their second Young Investigators Meeting in Chicago (YIM-C 2017). Sci-ROI encapsulates the notion of Science-Return on Investment, and YIM-C 2017 brought together nearly 300 young Indian
Read MoreThis year’s Young Investigators Meeting, YIM-C 2018, was held at the University of Chicago from September 7-9, making this the fourth year that the Science and Research Opportunities in India non-profit (Sci-ROI) has hosted the STEM based forum. Comprised of graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, entrepreneurs, and science policy makers, the YIM-C meetings are unique in their
Read MoreWINStep CEO and and Executive Director Naveeda Qadir were fortunate to be able to spend some quality time with the University of San Diego Khorana Bose Alumni Chapter this past summer. Dr. Ansari squeezed in time to attend Khorana Alum Annie Rathore’s PhD defense. Annie was a 2013 Khorana Scholar and returned to Scripps for
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