Vinay Chakravarthy has passed away
SAJA is reporting that bone marrow drive inspiration Vinay Chakravarthy passed away today at 29. I didn’t know him well but went to college with his brother Bharath, who’s a sweetheart. Here’s a three-minute interview with Vinay on how he found out he had leukemia.
Both Vinay and Sameer Bhatia found bone marrow donors through unprecedented nationwide drives and gave other South Asians a chance at survival. The dimensions of their gift will only be revealed as we hear of others who match on the registry — and, hopefully, beat the odds:
Survival rates were highest (33 percent) for those bone marrow transplants with matched unrelated donors. Survival rates were the same (22 percent) for cord blood and one antigen-mismatched unrelated bone marrow transplant patients… [Link]
Ironically, Vinay was in his medical residency when his symptoms emerged. My thoughts are with Bharath, Rashmi and their entire family.
on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008, 5:51 pm in Health, Profiles › 
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Oh God this is so so sad…
I cried a lot when sameer passed away, they had an online memorial and I watched sameers memorial and cried all 3hrs..
I checked his blog just this morning..Last week another person prof. krishnaswami relapsed I felt so so bad..
God I hope I get to work on leukemia and find a cure for it. unfortunately my company is not working on leukemia at this point..
sleeping in cancer hospitals for ten months looking at my dad suffer I know how painful it is to fight chemos..specially youngsters it is just hard to digest…
may his soul rest in peace..brave young guys sameer and vinay…I will light a candle for him..
My heart goes for Reena and Rashmi..young brides…they had barely 1-2 years of married life…
May waheguru bless his soul, and give strength to his lovely wife. I do hope his passing serves as a reminder to all of us to send swabs in for yet undiscovered cases. I know my family did when we first heard about Vinay, but thanks Manish for posting the info again, as it’ll make a great cut & paste email to forward on and encourage people to donate.
:(
this is truly a tragedy.
Oh God…I had no idea till today.
I hope Rashmi and the rest of his family can find the strength to remember Vinay at his finest…
:(