India — stop looking down on international collaborations, says structural biologist Arun Kumar Shukla
During my first week at my new job in 2014, a senior colleague called me into his office to share experience and wisdom. He advised that if a research publication from my laboratory had foreign co-authors, then it would count little towards my career progression.
I chalked up this advice as one person’s idiosyncratic opinion, and continued to nurture a broad network of international collaborators. This was crucial for my study of G-protein-coupled receptors, which pass diverse messages across the cell or nuclear surface and are the targets of powerful drugs, including those prescribed to treat heart failure, hypertension, allergies and mental illnesses.
I don’t want to cast assessment committees in a bad light. My aim is to raise an awareness of this bias, which might sometimes be unconscious. It runs counter to national strategy.
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