At 32, Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri is already 3 years into heading the Microarray Laboratory at the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), has filed five patents, and been invited by the Inter Academy Panel, a global network of the world’s science academies, to mentor other young scientists in the world.
In this last capacity, Nitsara was first selected to attend an inaugural young scientists meeting in 2008, which ran parallel to the World Economic Forum summer meeting in Tianjin, China. She has now been elected to be one of the founding co-chairs of the Global Young Academy (GYA) whose members will be from the top 200 young scientists from around the world. The goal is to be “the voice of young scientists around the world” by creating a forum for young scientists to better interact with each other to promote knowledge sharing and networking opportunities, especially for those in ...
