Her Story
About Pankti
Pankti Patel is a bioinformatician with 2 to 3 years of experience in the field. She currently serves as a volunteer bioinformatician contributor in Women in Science PDX. Previously, she worked as a graduate researcher at Northeastern, focusing on datasets for bioinformatics and cancer research. She holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry and bioinformatics from Mumbai and studied bioinformatics at Northeastern in Boston. She has a Nextflow certification and published a paper during her undergraduate studies. Her interest in the field stems from a desire to help people through data analysis on diseases and cancer, after initially aspiring to become a doctor.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Pankti
01What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Just because it looks hard at the present does not mean you cannot figure it out. Try to live outside your career, outside your day-to-day life, build your own life, have an individual full life. If you didn't get the job, but you have a party to go to, attend that party, dance at 2AM, don't care about what the other people will think. Align with yourself.
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