Google Doodle Marks Cancer Research Pioneer Ramal Ranadive's Birthday
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Dr Kamal Ranadive is best known for her groundbreaking cancer research and devotion to creating a more equitable society through science and education.
Google today celebrated Indian cell biologist Dr Kamal Ranadive's 104th birthday with a meticulously-crafted doodle. Kamal Ranadive is best known for her groundbreaking cancer research and devotion to creating a more equitable society through science and education.
The doodle, showing Ranadive looking at a microscope, was illustrated by India-based guest artist Ibrahim Rayintakath,
Kamal Samarath, better known as Kamal Ranadive, was born on this day in 1917 in Pune. Her father's encouragement to pursue a medical education inspired Ranadive to excel academically, but she found her calling in biology instead. In 1949, she received a doctorate in cytology, the study of cells, while working as a researcher in the Indian Cancer Research Center (ICRC). After a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, she returned to Mumbai (then Bombay) and the ICRC, where she established the country's first tissue culture laboratory.
