Her grit to quit practice as a cardiovascular surgeon and take to research instead, at age 50, had Soma Guhathakurta joining the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, for a PhD. She wished to develop a human-heart valve.
But on the suggestion of her adviser Venkatesh Balasubramanian, Head of Rehabilitation Bioengineering Group, she took up the task of developing a bio-material for valves. The result is India’s first tissue-engineered pericardial patch developed from the sack of a buffalo’s heart.
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