Google Doodle Celebrates 104th birthday of Dr. Kamal Ranadive, Indian Cell Biologist

NEW DELHI: Google on Monday 8 November dedicated its Doodle art to Indian Cell Biologist Dr. Kamal Ranadive honoring her on her 104th birth anniversary.

The doodle art shows Dr. Kamal Ranadive working in a laboratory surrounded by scientific elements and looking through a microscope. This doodle by google has been made by Indian-based guest artist Ibrahim Rayintakanth illustrator and art director. Google in the post said that Ranadive's dedication to health justice and education remains influential to her students who work as scientists today,".

Kamal Ranadive is also known with another name as Kamal Samrath, she is a well-known personality for her cancer research and enthusiasms to create a more equitable society through education and science. The Indian Women Scientist Association (IWSA) was also founded by Dr. Kamal Ranadive Throughout her life Kamal has made a lot of contributions in the world of science and medicine including her establishment of the first tissue culture laboratory in India at the Indian Cancer Research Centre which is presently called Cancer Research Institute and while working there she received a doctorate in cytology in the year 1949.

D. Kamal was born in Pune, Maharashtra in the year 1917 on this day and studied botany at the city's Ferguson College. Her father was the biology teacher in her college who encouraged her to study medical education. Kamal completed her master's degree from Agriculture College of Pune and later settled in Mumbai after getting married to JT Ranadive. She completed her Ph.D. from Bombay University and then went to Johns Hopkins University Hospital for a post-doctoral session. She became the pioneer in animal modeling of cancer development and as a director of the ICRC, she was the first researcher from India to propose a link between breast cancer and heredity and to identify the links among cancers and other viruses.

Ranadive studied Mycobacterium leprae, the bacterium that causes leprosy, and also contributed to developing a vaccine. Her motive in supporting women for scientific studies led to the foundation of the Indian Women Scientists' Association along with eleven colleagues. She also worked in various rural communities bringing awareness to train women as healthcare workers and helping them with the education of health and nutrition.

Ranadive has won several awards especially for her work in the field of leprosy she won Watumal Foundation Award and even the Padma Vibhushan. She believed and encouraged that students who went abroad for doctoral studies or training must return to their own country and should develop new areas of research and work for the community.

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