Tag Archives: Bone Marrow Donor

  Lori Nam, a Potomac, Md. resident, was diagnosed with Stage IV non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2009  at the age of 30.   During the 5 years following her diagnosis, Nam underwent surgeries, bone marrow biopsies and harvesting, countless scans and tests and 23 rounds of high dose chemotherapy and infusions. She achieved remission in February 2010, then relapsed in March 2012 and again in …

by: Mary Tablante 1.Fighting Hunger LOS ANGELES—Five Indian American freshmen at UCLA are competing for $1 million in seed funding for a student project with the goal of solving the global food crisis. The students, Aditya Aggarwal, Anushka Bhatia, Varadh Jain, Sajal Khanter and Sagar Patel, are developing an idea to purchase grain in bulk in India, package them into …