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Birth
He was born in Lalitpor, India, the oldest of 10 children. (This is a photo with his mother and all of his siblings. He's the one on the top right with the beard.) -
Started at St. Dominic Savio Convent School
He went to the local primary school, a Catholic school, when he was 5. -
Started at Govt Inter College High School in Lalitpur
He went to the local middle/high school from 6th-8th grade. -
Started at Model High School in Jabalpur
He left his home and went to a different province for high school, in order to get the best possible education. -
Gap Year
He took a gap year in between high school and university. He learned Urdu, a language spoken in parts of India, during that year. -
Graduated University
He got his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1972 from IIT Kanpur. -
Finished His Master's Degree
He got his MS in chemical engineering from University of Delaware. -
Defended His PhD
He got his PhD in chemical engineering at University of Delaware. -
Started Working at Columbia University
He was an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Columbia. -
Introduced to Western Culture
When he moved to New York, he was introduced to lots of parts of Western culture, including opera, ballet and dance, and art. He developed a lifelong appreciation for all of those art forms. -
Started Working at Carnagie Mellon
He served first as an assistant, then an associate, then finally a full professor of chemical engineering. -
Became a Full Professor
He became a full professor at Carnagie Mellon at age 32. -
Got Guggenheim Fellowship (83-84)
He first took a semester at MIT in the chemical engineering department, then split the spring semester between UCSD (in the bioengineering department) and Stanford (in the radiology and radiation oncology department). -
Started Swimming
While living in California on sabbatical, he started swimming regularly, and has never stopped. -
Went on Sabbatical to Germany as a Humboldt Senior Scientist (90-91)
He spent one semester at the University of Mainz in the Institute of Pathophisiology. He then spent the other semester at the University of Munich in the Institute for Surgical Research, at the Grosshadern Hospital. -
Started Working at Harvard Medical School
He became the Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology (Tumor Biology) at Harvard Medical School at the age of 40. -
Started Working at MGH
He became the director of the Edwin L. Steele Laboratory at MGH, studying tumor biology. -
First Date with my Mom
He took my mom to The Helmand, an Afghani restaurant in Cambridge. -
Got Married
My dad and mom got married. -
Birth of His Daughters
My twin sister and I were born at MGH in Boston. (I'm the one facing the camera, and my sister Anjali is looking down.) -
National Medal of Science
He was awarded the National Medal of Science by Obama for his work in vascular normalization and understanding the tumor microenvironment.
