From all of us at the IFS Secretariat, we wish you a joyful holiday season and a happy new year!

What a year it has been: a global pandemic, protests and riots, national and local elections, online learning, remote work, social distancing, Zoom parties and more. Meanwhile, resolute scientists around the world continued working to solve our most urgent problems. Science did not quarantine in 2020, and thus IFS continued its essential work of supporting early career researchers in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries.