Looking Back with Purpose, Looking Ahead with Precision | SciRio at the Turn of 2026

SciRio’s Continuing Evolution at the Intersection of Science, Strategy, and Society

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Suchitha Champak
January 05, 2026

Welcome, reader!

Thank you for staying with us, challenging us, and growing alongside SciRio. As we step into a new year, we wish you one filled with thoughtful science, meaningful questions, and communication that truly matters.

A Note from the Founder

The end of a year always invites reflection—but 2025, in particular, demanded intention.

What started as a science communication initiative over 4 years ago has now taken firmer structural and strategic roots.

In November 2025, SciRio formally became a Private Limited company. This was more than a legal milestone—it marked our commitment to building SciRio as a long-term, accountable, and scalable enterprise that partners seriously with science-led organisations.

Deepening Engagements Across Science and Industry

One of the most rewarding aspects of 2025 was working closely with scientists and industry leaders at pivotal moments in their journeys.

We conducted a science writing workshop for scientists at the Life Sciences and Technology Centre of ITC Limited, engaging with researchers who are shaping innovation within a large FMCG ecosystem. The conversations reinforced a critical truth: strong science deserves equally strong communication—internally and externally.

At IIT Gandhinagar, SciRio led a session on Science Communication through Presentations for incoming B.Tech students, in collaboration with the institute’s Leadership Development Initiative. Working with first-year students reminded us how early communication skills influence confidence, clarity, and scientific thinking over an entire career.

A Strategic Pivot, Not a Departure

Over the past year, SciRio has sharpened its positioning as a science content marketing enterprise for medtech, biotech, healthcare, and climate-tech organisations, while continuing deep collaborations with academia. Our work spanned early-stage biotech companies building credibility from the ground up, established industry players strengthening regulatory-ready narratives, and research institutions translating complex science for wider audiences.

We partnered with biotech and medtech companies to build end-to-end communication systems—websites, investor decks, pitch decks, newsletters, SEO-driven blogs, and LinkedIn thought leadership—covering areas such as diagnostics, oncology, metabolic therapeutics, IVD reagents, drug discovery services, rare diseases, AMR, and reference standards. Several of these engagements extended into long-term retainers, supporting founders and CXOs with sustained scientific storytelling across digital, investor, regulatory, and trade-facing touchpoints.

At the same time, our work with academic and public institutions involved simplifying cutting-edge research through social media, blogs, reports, coffee table books, event collaterals, and live coverage—often for audiences ranging from aspiring students to policymakers and funding agencies. We also supported climate and public health organisations through data-rich infographics, reports, and design-led publications that balanced scientific rigour with accessibility.

Across nutraceuticals, Ayurveda, climate initiatives, healthtech platforms, and national-level science programmes, one pattern remained constant: organisations increasingly recognise that credible science must be communicated with clarity, evidence, and intent. SciRio’s role has been to build that bridge—quietly, rigorously, and with long-term thinking.

Building What Comes Next

As SciRio enters its next phase, our focus is on building for durability, not speed.

In the year ahead, we will continue strengthening our core science communication capabilities while expanding thoughtfully across multiple verticals—from industry-facing science content and education-led initiatives to emerging areas where evidence-based communication is becoming mission-critical. Alongside this expansion, we are laying the foundations for responsible growth through leadership capacity, long-term partnerships, and structures that support scale without diluting intent.

This next phase is about building responsibly: strengthening systems, people, and partnerships without losing the thoughtfulness that defines our work.

A Note of Gratitude

None of this would be possible without the scientists, educators, industry partners, collaborators, and well-wishers who have trusted SciRio with their stories, their challenges, and their ambitions.

Your belief has shaped not just our work, but our direction.

Looking Forward

If 2025 was about structure and clarity, 2026 will be about scale and impact.

We look forward to continuing this journey with you—asking better questions, telling better science stories, and building communication that earns trust.

Here’s to another year of science, clarity, and shared progress.

— Suchitha & Team SciRio

Spotlight Partner – Starting 2026 with Curious Science

As the calendar turns and new beginnings take shape, The Life of Science invites readers to step into 2026 with curiosity rather than certainty. The Labhopping 2026 Desktop Calendar, titled SCIENCE: Fuzzy, Messy, Awesome!, is a reminder that progress in science rarely follows a straight line—and that the most exciting discoveries often emerge from ambiguity.

Each month explores a single, deceptively simple question: Is tar a solid or a liquid? Are viruses truly alive? How do scientists decide where one species ends and another begins? These prompts foreground the productive uncertainty at the heart of scientific inquiry—an especially fitting theme as the global research community looks ahead to new challenges and possibilities in the year to come.

The calendar’s bold visual language comes from trans artist Ayan (ayanbythesea.com), whose playful illustrations are paired with concise, accessible explanations printed on the reverse of every page. Developed by Labhopping’s award-winning editorial team in collaboration with over a dozen Indian scientists—predominantly women and trans experts—the project reflects a deeply collaborative and inclusive approach to science storytelling.

All proceeds from the calendar will support new multimedia science journalism on TheLifeofScience.com throughout 2026. The project is supported by neuroscientist Abhilasha Joshi through prize funds from the Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award, with SciRio managing logistics and reselling.

Purchase and Support

A thoughtful New Year gift—for desks, labs, and anyone who believes that asking better questions is the best way to begin again.