Anika Roy, a 4th year CND student working with Dr. Chittaranjan Hens received the Khorana Scholarship in 2024 and went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA as a visiting research student from 14 June to 31 August. At MIT Cambridge, Anika worked with Dr. Bijan Mazaheri and Dr. Caroline Uhler. During her internship, she explored many novel methods, and she is hoping to harness concepts from causal inference, statistics and ML to come up with a balanced approach to dataset alignment without losing meaningful information.
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India, Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and WINStep Forward are partnering to support the prestigious Khorana Program for Scholars named in honor of Dr. Har Gobind Khorana, who won the Nobel Prize in 1968 for his work at the interface of Chemistry and Biology while a member of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty. The Khorana Program provides opportunities to Indian students to get research exposure at leading U.S. universities over summer 2025 for a period of 10-12 weeks.
December 2024