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Vivek Wadhwa

Vivek Wadhwa: ‘I lost my wife to cancer in 2019–and decided to defeat it for good. Now all of India is joining my quest for world-saving innovation’

(Credit: Courtesy of the Prime Minister's Office)

After losing my dear wife Tavinder to cancer in June 2019, I made it my life’s mission to do what she asked: prevent others from suffering the way she did. Tavinder knew that I would be devastated without her–and that the only thing that would keep me going was to help others.

So, with the assistance of the leading oncologists and medical researchers who tried to help save her, I prepared a grand plan to cure cancer, which incorporates the exponential technologies that I used to teach at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Engineering in Silicon Valley, such as genetic sequencing, machine learning, advanced sensors, and synthetic biology. 

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