Inside savani.bio: one memorable link for a growing scientific career

A domain of their own is a Lnk.Bio series about creators and professionals who use a custom domain to give their work a more personal home online. In this edition, we meet Milan Savani, a physician-scientist trainee using one memorable address to connect his research, credentials and professional profiles.

A scientific research poster has a difficult job. It has to turn years of work into something a person can understand in just a few minutes, while still giving them a way to dig deeper if they want to learn more.

For Milan Savani, savani.bio connects the poster to the rest of his work. Milan recently completed his PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology at UT Southwestern and is now finishing medical school, with research spanning metabolism, cancer biology and clinical medicine. For someone whose work is rooted in biology, .bio is a fitting place to bring his research, publications, and credentials together.

Beyond the poster

Milan’s corner of the internet is built for the people he meets through research, medicine and the journey between them.

“My audience is scientific colleagues, other medical students, and people I meet on the journey to applying for physician-scientist residency programs."

Those visitors may want to read one of his papers, look through his broader research or reconnect after meeting him at a conference.

On savani.bio, they can find selected publications, his full bibliography, ORCID profile, media coverage, career materials and ways to get in touch without having to search for each one separately.

Before creating the page, Milan often linked directly to individual articles from his conference posters. That worked for the paper being presented, but typically stopped there.

“Having the .bio domain and Lnk.Bio allows me to instead link to a collection of articles, my ORCID, and ways to connect.”

One link for the bigger picture

The idea came together while Milan was preparing materials for a conference for physician-scientists.

“I was working to assemble materials for a poster presentation and looking for a better way to link my materials together.”

A custom .bio became a digital extension of that presentation. Instead of crowding the poster with multiple URLs or sending someone to a single paper, Milan could use one QR code that led to the broader body of work behind the presentation.

He now uses savani.bio on posters and presentations and shares it directly with people he meets. His favorite use so far has been “using it as a way to connect with colleagues at conferences.” This matters in a setting where conversations are often short. Someone can scan the code, keep the page and easily come back to the research later.

A profile that grows with the work

The other advantage is that the destination can change even when the domain and QR code stay the same. Research careers do not stand still—new papers appear, presentation materials change, CVs expand and areas of focus shift.

“It’s super easy to update dynamically as new things get published or I make edits to my materials.”

A QR code on a poster does not go stale the moment Milan publishes something new. Because it points to a living page rather than a single paper, the collection behind it keeps growing.

A name that is easy to remember

There is also something unusually natural about savani.bio. It uses Milan’s real name, and the domain itself happens to describe both what the page is and the field he works in.

“It’s just my real name!”

That simplicity makes the address easy to use on a poster or slide and easy to remember after a conference ends. It also gives Milan one consistent place to point people as his research and career evolve. Milan’s advice to others considering the same approach is equally simple: