Active chats with research scholar Dr Antima Gupta, who won the UNESCO-L'Oreal Fellowship 2010 for her research on antibiotic resistant tuberculosis. She tells us how to make it to the top and why women make better researchers than men

What does the award mean to you?
It's a great honour to be recognised and I hope it inspires young women to pursue research as a career. I have been granted a one-year post-doctoral fellowship at Birbeck College in the UK and hope to further my research on Tuberculosis, which afflicts 1.7 million people worldwide with more than 20% of the world's cases coming from India.