When the Covid-19 pandemic laid bare discrepancies in resource equity, MIT postdoc Dig Bijay Mahat worked to help Nepal navigate widespread Covid testing requirements and vaccine rollouts.
Nobel laureate Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011) is being globally remembered for his huge contribution towards discovering an essential function of our DNA, and, thereafter, for constructing the first synthetic gene. Popular writings on Khorana recall his doctoral study on the Indian Government Fellow
Khorana figured out how to synthesise different bits of DNA and RNA – called polynucleotides – that were important to understand the composition of genetic codes.