Shyamala Gopalan | |
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Died | February 11, 2009 Oakland, California, U.S. | (aged 70)
Other names | Gopalan Shyamala, G. Shyamala, Shyamala Gopalan Harris |
Education | |
Known for | Progesterone receptor biology and applications to breast cancer, mother of U.S. vice president Kamala Harris |
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Children | |
Parent(s) | P. V. Gopalan (father) Rajam Gopalan (mother) |
Scientific career | |
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Thesis | The isolation and purification of a trypsin inhibitor from whole wheat flour (1964) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard 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]
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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.)
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