What I’m doing NOW

1. 🧑🏻‍🔬 I am currently working “On The Next Big Thing” as an Application Scientist at Revvity (India) - focused on developing novel NGS products for the biotech industry.

2. 👨🏻‍💻🕸 I aim to build a strong network within the bio-entrepreneurship community in India. Also aiming to become a LinkedIn top voice within healthcare ecosystem - Figuring Out How To Do That!

What I was doing LAST YEAR

1. 📲📈 Last year, I took a sabbatical from academic research and completed volunteering work in 2 startup companies and 1 non-profit organization. The 2 biotech companies are:
   - Translatale Biosystems where i worked as a Business Development Consultant
   - Nordetect where I worked as a Commercial Consultant
   The non-profit organization is:
   - REBBLS where i helped organize events for connecting bio-entrepreneurs and investors.

My constant PASSION is

1. 😎⌛ I aim to develop a professional mindset of a COO (like Tim Cook) in delivering projects, on time, with perfection.

2. ✍🏻🎤 I am passionate about awareness in society. I strongly believe in IKIGAI: a Japanese philosophy of combining one’s passion and market demand to develop a career plan.

How I try to spread VALUE IN SOCIETY

1. 👨🏻‍🏫 I organize / present in workshops for early-career science students to help them train for job applications in industry and academia. I secured a corporate grant from Cactus Communications for a career development workshop (https://bit.ly/37SA8CM).

My HOBBIES are

1. 🏺 I am really good at sketching and photography. But I love Paper Craft. Paper craft is like a fine surgery. You need perfection and absolute control.

2. 👨🏻‍🍳 I love cooking, specifically cutting vegetables with chef knives.

3. 🦉 I love birdwatching. I always carry my Olympus 8x40 S binoculars wherever I go :)

Get in touch

1. 🐦 LinkedIn - If you have a short question or message (<300 characters), please DM me.

2. 📨 If you have an elaborate query, write to me at aritra.misra12@gmail.com. I reply to all my emails. But probably it takes a day or two to reply. Can’t work all the time!!!

My Professional Career

• Application Scientist | REVVITY | India
  Nov 2023 - present
  Developing NGS products
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• Career Transition | VOLUNTARY WORK |
  Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
  1. Bio-Business Summer School | Denmark
  Aug 2023
  Copenhagen Business School

  2. Translatale Biosystems (pharma startup) | India
  Feb 2023 - Aug 2023
  Business Development Consultant

  3. Nordetect (diagnostics startup) | Denmark
  May 2023 - Jul 2023
  Commercial Strategy Consultant

  4. REBBLS (Danish non-profit) | Denmark
  Sep 2022 - May 2023
  Biotech Startup Network Management
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• Postdoctoral Researcher | Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine | Denmark
  Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
  Genetics and Cell Biology of Epithelial Skin Disorders
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• Ph.D. | Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine | India
  Aug 2014 - Dec 2020
  Genetics and Cell Biology of Cardiac Development
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• International Visiting Research Associate | RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics | Japan
  Dec 2019 - Mar 2020
  Quantitative Live Imaging Microscopy of Cilia Motility and Extracellular Fluid Flow
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• Research Project Intern | India Institute for Science Education and Research | India
  Sep 2011 - Nov 2011
  Statistical Analysis of Arachnid Behavior

Education

• Masters in Zoology | Savitribai Phule Pune University | India
  2012 - 2014
  Molecular Biology | Biochemistry | Molecular Genomics
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• Bachelors in Zoology | Vivekananda College - Calcutta University | India
  2009 - 2012
  Physiology | Histology | Evolutionary Biology