GOPIO and other Indian community organizations have made an appeal to help save the life of Dr Nalini Ambady. She has been given a few weeks to find a bone marrow donor and time is running out!
Nalini, originally from Kerala, is a renowned scientist whose work was featured in Malcolm Gladwell’s best selling book Blink. She is the first Indian woman to have been on the faculty of both Harvard and Stanford’s psychology department. She is also the mother of two young girls.
Nalini needs your help. She is suffering from leukemia and needs a blood stem cell donor soon in order to survive. Due to certain genetic markers, her match will almost certainly be a fellow Keralite. Right now, there is no match in the registry for her.
Indian community organizations are requested to host a bone marrow donor drive to register South Asian community. Hosting a drive is easy! Be the Match, the national bone marrow registry, will help every step of the way. Registering takes only minutes – a simple cheek swab and a little paperwork. Anyone between the ages of 18-44 can be a donor. If you can’t donate, you can help find donors.
For more information, visit www.NaliniNeedsYou.com or call 650-318-1297 in the US or contact: Taylor Phillips: taylorp@stanford.edu or Sribala Subramanian: bsubra@nyc.rr.com
India Post News Service
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