21 Facts About Kamal Ranadive

Kamal Jayasing Ranadive was an Indian biomedical researcher known for her research on the links between cancers and viruses.

Kamal Ranadive was a founding member of the Indian Women Scientists' Association.

Kamal Ranadive's parents were Dinkar Dattatreya Samarath and Shantabai Dinkar Samarath.

Kamal Ranadive's father was a biologist who taught at Fergusson College, Pune.

Kamal Ranadive ensured that all his children were well educated.

Kamal Ranadive's father wanted her to study medicine and marry a doctor, but she decided otherwise.

Kamal Ranadive started her college education at Fergusson College with Botany and Zoology as her main subjects.

Kamal Ranadive's husband, Ranadive, was a great help in her postgraduate studies in Cytology; this subject had been chosen by her father.

Kamal Ranadive's guide was V R Khanolkar, a pathologist of repute and the founder of the Indian Cancer Research Centre.

Kamal Ranadive obtained a postdoctoral research fellowship to work on tissue culture techniques and work with George Gey in his laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Kamal Ranadive was instrumental in establishing Experimental Biology Laboratory and Tissue Culture Laboratory in Bombay.

Kamal Ranadive was responsible for establishing new research units in Carcinogenesis, Cell biology and Immunology.

Kamal Ranadive was a great inspiration to Indian women scientists to work on cancer research, in particular on the subject cancer among women and children.

When Kamal Ranadive was working for Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital in Bombay in the department of pathology she reported on the research studies on the "Comparative morphology of normal mammary glands of four strains of mice varying in their susceptibility to breast cancer".

Kamal Ranadive attempted to correlate the course of the disease with heredity, child-bearing, histological structure and other factors.

Kamal Ranadive provided advice to women in the rural villages near Rajpur and Ahmednagar on health and medical care through government sponsored projects under the aegis of the Indian Women Association.

Kamal Ranadive was awarded the Padma Bhushan for Medicine, in 1982.

Kamal Ranadive was awarded the first Silver Jubilee Research Award 1964, of the Medical Council of India.

Kamal Ranadive was an Emeritus Medical Scientist of the Indian Council of Medical Research.

Kamal Ranadive was honored with a Google Doodle on 8 November 2021, her 104th birthday.

Kamal Ranadive published more than 200 scientific research papers on cancer and leprosy.