Mumbai: Nalini Ambady, the first Indian American woman professor working in the psychology department at the prestigious Stanford University in California, succumbed to leukaemia early on Tuesday in Boston. She was waiting for a bone-marrow donor to save her life.
"For nearly a year, she was in and out of hospitals. The last stint being in a Boston hospital where she was supposed to get a donor. However, the donor backed off at the last minute," family friend Dilip D'Souza told IANS.
The family had found 13 matching donors after a thorough online search, but at least half of them backed off at the last minute, while the others were rejected due to partial compatibility, D'Souza said.
"When I had gone to Boston last month, I spent around a week with the family. However, it appeared clear that she was sliding and even the doctors seemed to have given up hopes," he added.
Her condition particularly deteriorated over the past 4-5 weeks and even her organs started collapsing.
The news was conveyed to D'Souza by Nalini's husband, Raj Marphatia, and other relatives early Tuesday in Mumbai and in her native state, Kerala.
An award-winning professor and the first Indian to teach in Stanford's Psychology Department, Ambady remained in and out of various hospitals as her condition deteriorated. She was detected with the disease in 2004, but was cured and it recurred last year.
"For nearly a year, she was in and out of hospitals. The last stint being in a Boston hospital where she was supposed to get a donor. However, the donor backed off at the last minute," family friend Dilip D'Souza told IANS.
The family had found 13 matching donors after a thorough online search, but at least half of them backed off at the last minute, while the others were rejected due to partial compatibility, D'Souza said.
Her condition particularly deteriorated over the past 4-5 weeks and even her organs started collapsing.
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An award-winning professor and the first Indian to teach in Stanford's Psychology Department, Ambady remained in and out of various hospitals as her condition deteriorated. She was detected with the disease in 2004, but was cured and it recurred last year.
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