Efforts are underway to reinforce health education and healthcare delivery in rural Vietnam to combat a rise in chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and respiratory ailments.

As part of the Beacon of Hope initiative, the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, offers 10-week paid summer fellowships for students at Historically Black Medical Schools to gain experience in drug discovery, data analytics and clinical research practices - with the goal of training up to 250 scientific leaders over 10 years.

Physician-scientist Cyndy Grosskreutz explains why she transitioned from academia to industry.

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