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Daring to dream with Dr. Nilesh Kumar Dubey

Daring to dream

with Dr. Nilesh Kumar Dubey

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How can a Clinician become a great Scientist? Listen to Dr. Nilesh Kumar Dubey talk about his life, career transition and following his dream as a prolific clinician cum researcher on the SciKonnect podcast by Biopatrika. Dr. Dubey is the Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, where he is working on exploring the bio fabrication technology for tissue transplantation. Before his career as a researcher, he started his journey as a Dentist in Maharashtra, India. In this episode, Dr. Dubey shares his experience about the challenges of a career transition and how to overcome them. He also discusses the importance of mentoring, networking, and social media in career development and how these resources can help you achieve your dreams.


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Charu:

Biopatrika, your very own online science communication, brings science closer to you in so many ways. Today, Scikonnect by Biopatrika welcomes all science enthusiasts to our Career Highlight podcast. I, Charu Gupta, and my co-host, Nikhil Kumar Tulsian, have been given the honor to hear about a dynamic career story that makes you never want to stop believing in your dreams, no matter where you begin.

Nikhil:

For our second episode, we have an excellent speaker and highly accomplished scientist, Assistant Professor Nilesh Kumar Dubey, at the National University of Singapore. Having begun his career in Maharashtra, India, as a dentist, Nilesh quickly realized his dreams were bigger. He has traveled the globe in his quest towards providing better dental care, leading him to amalgamate nanotechnology, biofabrication and 3D printing. How do you get so far in such a short time? Is it sheer hard work and motivation? Well, let’s hear it from the man himself. So, Nilesh, can you share more on your journey?

Nilesh:

Thank you, Charu and Nikhil, for the wonderful words, and I’m very thankful that you guys invited me for this wonderful presentation. So, I will not take much time. I will just talk something about myself. As you mentioned, I’m a trained dentist. I have practiced for four years back at home, on and off. And I realized, you know, that being a clinician, because I come from a researcher’s family, my father is a researcher, my brother-in-law is a researcher, my sister got married in 2012. And that’s where we realized, you know, I met a scientist, another one from a biological perspective, and that was something which makes me, you know, go and try this research career. And I went to MD Anderson, and I did something totally very different, which was in liver cancer, nothing related to dentistry. And that was my first time, you know, I got exposed to dentistry. And then, I decided to do a Ph.D. I came to NUS, where I did my Ph.D. in graphene, nanocoatings and nanomaterials. After that, I went to Michigan and did my two years of postdoc in Michigan in biofabrication technology. And I joined the National University of Singapore very recently into the faculty of dentistry, where I’m exploring this biofabrication technology for some tissue transplantation.

Charu:

Yeah, that is “Wow.” I mean, I have to say, you sampled so many things throughout your career already. And there’s also so much more to come. What I’m really curious about is, I mean, you mentioned that you’re from a research-oriented family with different aspects, your brother-in-law and your father is scientific researcher, and you were a clinician. When did you decide or what was the turning point in your life that you said – Yes. This is what interests me. I want to be a scientist.

Nilesh:

Actually, it was in my third year of dental school, okay. And especially coming from India, we have this, I think we are the generation where our parents had forced us to do medicine or engineering. It’s like we are the generation. They said, no, you will become a doctor, or you will become an engineer. But for me, it was clear in the third year of dentistry. My brother-in-law, he worked in WHO, and I still remember the date, it was the 8th of April, and he sent a photo to us. We had a skype call, and he showed me a photo of him with Krick. Okay. And I was like, amazed, and I said, you know, what you are telling, he must be dead because they discovered this model. And that time, I came to know that he was only 24 years old, if I’m correct, during that time, and that excites me. I will say, it was my childishness at that time, that you know, I can get to meet these people with whom I read about being a researcher. Okay. And I think it’s childish motivation. But that was a motivation for me, you know, that I will get to meet these wonderful people whom they read about in the book. And maybe someday somebody will read about me. Research is a career. You don’t get paid well, but you can become very famous. People can read about yourself in the book. And I think that was the motivation for me to become a scientist.

Charu:

Yeah. Putting a name to the face. And I mean big people you learn about when you’re just ten years old. Yeah, that’s absolutely fantastic.

Nikhil:

Definitely, and definitely, you’ll have a book on you in the near future. The young scientist.


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Hosts: Charu, Nikhil

Editing: Samriti, Nikhil, Virender, Shreyansh, Vikram

Social: Charu Gupta, Albertha Joseph-Alexander

Music by Aditya Sutar

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Expert in hematological diseases and malignancies, Dr. Charu Gupta is dedicated to improving the quality of patient life. This multi-talented cancer researcher enjoys creating content for her food blog “The Indian Food Explorer”, travel, horse riding and swimming.

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Dr. Nikhil Tulsian is a postdoctoral researcher whose work is central to understanding infectious diseases, antibody characterization, virus dynamics and regulation. Being a SciKonnect podcast host enables him to fulfill his interest of inculcating the spirit of science in people.

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