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On August 25th, 2021 9.30 am EST Exploring different career paths for life science graduates with international female speakers presented by the Department of Molecular Genetics in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine and International Students' Council Through the eyes of international female speakers MoGen International Students' Liason presents

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On August 25th, 2021

9.30 am EST

Exploring different career paths for lifescience graduates with international

female speakers

presented by the Department of MolecularGenetics in collaboration with the Faculty ofMedicine and International Students' Council

With Gowri M Balachander, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Yong Loo Lin School of

Medicine, National University of Singapore,

Kent Ridge, Singapore

Through the eyes of international female speakers

MoGen International Students' Liason presents

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About Gowri

Dr Gowri M Balachander is a trained scientist,mentor and advocate for student leadership inSTEM. She currently works as a post doctoralfellow at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School ofMedicine. She holds a MS in engineering fromthe Indian Institute of Science, where she wenton to complete a PhD in Tissue Engineering forBreast Cancer. She holds extensive experiencein successfully completing scientific projects aswell as mentoring students.

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