Pritam was born on June 20, 1991, in a small village in Odisha, India. Pritam had a tough childhood. A year after he was born, he lost his father. With great difficulty, his mother got a job as a primary school teacher earning minimal to survive. A difficult childhood didn’t stand in the way of Pritam dreaming big and making his own choices. For instance, in 2008, when his peers advised him to pursue a field other than science to reduce the financial burden on his single mother, he ignored their advice and decided to pursue bioinformatics. His mother stood by his decision. It was a turning point in his life.
Pritam persevered and today, the researcher and computational scientist has built a life for himself in Germany. The bioinformatics enthusiast and expert in computational methods has also forayed into entrepreneurship with his scientific skills.
There’s lots of data available and Pritam was determined to make sense of that data. “The idea was to collect, integrate data and convert into meaningful, actionable insight", says the tech-savvy Pritam, who splurges money on gadgets.