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Jan 26, 2021 · Ms Gopalan, who died in February 2009 at 70 from colon cancer, is known around the world for making significant discoveries about the role of hormones in breast cancer.
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Shyamala Gopalan (Shyamala Harris) was an Indian-American cancer researcher and civil rights activist. She conducted research in the Cancer Research Lab in UC Berkeley’s Department of Zoology. She worked as a breast cancer researcher at University of Illinois and University of Wisconsin. She worked for 16 years at Lady Davis Institute for Medical R...
Shyamala Gopalan was born on April 7, 1938, in Madras, British India. She died on February 11, 2009, in Oakland, California, United States. She was 70 years old.
Shyamala Gopalan Harris and her husband Donald Harris had two children, Kamala Harrisand Maya Harris. Her daughter Kamala is the Democratic vice presidential nominee in the 2020 United States presidential election. She also had a granddaughter, Meena Harris.
Nov 11, 2020 · Kamala Harris has spoken about her mom, Shyamala Gopalan, a Tamil Indian-American who became a leading cancer researcher and activist and passed away in 2009. (Image credit: Cliff Hawkins) By...
Oct 25, 2020 · Gopalan was the only non-Black member. It was through her civil-rights activism that she got to know Donald Harris, a fellow Berkeley grad student from Jamaica. Harris was giving a talk at an ...
Nov 19, 2020 · Gopalan is often invoked in Harris's speeches. Maya Harris, Kamala's younger sister, once tweeted, “You can’t know who Kamala Harris is without knowing who our mother was.”. In fact, Harris ...
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Mar 22, 2009 · A Memorial Service will be held at 3 p.m. on Mar 28 at the Bellevue Club, 525 Bellevue Ave., Oakland. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Breast Cancer Action, 55 New Montgomery St., Ste ...
Shyamala Gopalan (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology. She was the mother of Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris and Maya Harris ...
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