26 May 2022
The Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Sciences organized a Career orientation talk entitled “What do I intend to do with what I learnt” on 26/05/2022. The resource person for the talk was Dr. B V Ravikumar, Chairman and Managing Director, XCyton Diagnostics Ltd., Bengaluru, who holds more than three decades of experience and expertise in diagnostic kits development. The talk was conducted offline in APJ Hall, SoAS block. 75 postgraduate students from Biotechnology, Microbial technology and Bioinformatics attended the session.
The session started with a brief introduction of the resource person by Dr. Guruprasad N M followed by welcoming the guest. Dr. Ravikumar started his talk deliberating on various job and entrepreneurial opportunities in life science domain. Later he enlightened the students with several skill enhancement strategies highlighting plethora of skills what a company necessitates for the selection process.
Dr. Ravikumar interacted individually with each student to know the extent of scientific temper that the present generation students are possessing and later he insisted the students to have a professional and scientific attitude in the field of life sciences. He also gave a glimpse of various pharmaceutical, food processing, beverages, bioinformatics, clinical research, and marketing sectors where a student can opt for placements after the completion of their course. The overall session was highly interactive and students received innumerous take home messages from Dr. Ravikumar’s splendid talk.
