Young woman, Pratibha, is a Biotech fanatic. She comes to hear of Biotechnology in her pre-highschool phase and immediately she gets stuck onto the idea of it’s study. As imaginable for someone fixated by a single foremost passion, Pratibha too takes on to bagging many a opportunity in her biotech fad. Her story leaps from watching a movie dot around the said field to making her own research on science behind the Covid outbreak. I’m proud to unveil her journey herewith…
An undergrad of Biotechnology who is currently enrolled for Masters in Medical Biotechnology at IIT Hyderabad. She carries on the true blue Biotechian spirit. Of all the tools & skills she has acquired so far, Fermentation Technology was the one to challenge her, unlikely disposable to her in view of the weight-bearing gender bias at work. Despite she has turned it around to her skilldom* which has further promoted her profile for offer at Biotech companies.
While she was interning at Anthem Biosciences, she had been trained in Cloning Techniques. And in her tenure as a Research Associate with Glogene Biosciences, she had taken up Insulin Metabolite Production Using Recombinant Bacteria encovering Upstream & Downstream. She had also stayed up with work on Secondary Metabolite Production From Soil Microbes encovering Upstream & Downstream. Her presence whilst here has soaked in the dynamics of a Biotechnical startup. Since she has visualized a career as a Biotech Entrepreneur for herself, she has been grasping in such essential wisdom from work hours punched in at the startup.
She stays above the idea of becoming an Entrepreneurial Researcher in Biotechnology in the long run. She is provenly packaged with Leadership skills too. When she had been the School Pupil Leader or had hosted a multinational potluck during her Summer School. Though for her near-term goals she supposes publishing a paper on her noticably popularised research* in diagnostics & therapeutics into Covid-19.
Yes. She had taken it upon herself to study on the SARS-CoV-2 through means of computational tools. She has realized through it the indirect correlation of viral transmissibility to hike of deathrate in India & USA. She also asserts the virus enclosed to China doesn’t mutate as the same virus elsewhere which gives reason to the relatively lower death toll in China. She has observed the higher mutation rate within the spike component of the virus as well. Part of her research resolves to suggest three repurposed drugs to the treatment of aforementioned viral plague. On a side note up with the theory of vaccine discovery, she imagines an RNA-based therapy working out better in place of protein vaccine in test already. She is seeking out an in-vitro transition of her research with the National Institute of Virology soon.
Coming down to other talents sidelining Pratibha, she dabbles in Photography, Painting & Cooking.
HOT TIP, HERS: Why don’t you read here her own writing? (Courtesy: Leeds University)
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