Shyamala Gopalan

In this Indian name, the name Gopalan is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Shyamala.

Shyamala Gopalan
Born(1938-12-07)December 7, 1938
Madras, Madras Province, British India
(present-day Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India)
DiedFebruary 11, 2009(2009-02-11) (aged 70)
Oakland, California, U.S.
Other namesGopalan Shyamala, G. Shyamala, Shyamala Gopalan Harris
Education
Known forProgesterone receptor biology and applications to breast cancer, mother of U.S. vice president Kamala Harris
Spouse
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(m. 1963; div. 1971)​
Children
Parent(s)P. V. Gopalan (father)
Rajam Gopalan (mother)
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisThe isolation and purification of a trypsin inhibitor from whole wheat flour (1964)
Doctoral advisorRichard L. Lyman[1]

Shyamala Gopalan[a] (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,[5] whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene has stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology.[6] She was the mother of Kamala Harris (former Attorney General of California and Senator who became Vice President of the United States) and Maya Harris, a lawyer and political commentator.[7]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference lyman was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Shyamala_Gopalan_Harris.pdf" (PDF). United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. p. 14/154. Retrieved March 23, 2024. Gopalan Shyamala [Maiden]
    Also see: "Shyamala_Gopalan_Harris.pdf" (PDF). United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. p. 23/154. Retrieved March 23, 2024. which is an Indian government document that uses the form "G. Shyamala".
  3. ^ "Shyamala_Gopalan_Harris.pdf" (PDF). United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. p. 8/154. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
  4. ^ "Shyamala_Gopalan_Harris.pdf" (PDF). United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. p. 90/154. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
  5. ^ Tabasko, Michael (July–August 2021), "A Fortuitious Connection: Vice President Kamala Harris's Mother and Her NIH Collaborations" (PDF), NIH Catalyst, 29 (4), National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director: 1, 6, Gopalan eventually left Canada and returned to California to continue her work on the role of hormone receptors in breast-cancer development at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, California). She was awarded several NIH grants supporting her research through 2001, and her lab published their findings in 2006 (Cancer Res 66:10391–10398, 2006). (Photo caption: Shyamala Gopalan Harris (left) in her lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.)
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference bcaction was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Cadelago, Christopher; Oprysko, Caitlin (August 11, 2020). "Biden picks Kamala Harris as VP nominee". Politico. Retrieved August 31, 2020.


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