{"id":19772,"date":"2021-09-03T18:58:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T23:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=19772"},"modified":"2021-09-04T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T20:45:38","slug":"marissa-sumathipala-regeneron-science-talent-search-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/marissa-sumathipala-regeneron-science-talent-search-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian American Marissa Sumathipala, a US Presidential Scholar, Reinvents Heart Disease Therapy for Millions of People"},"content":{"rendered":"
The untimely demise of Sidharth Shukla, a popular Indian television actor, who recently succumbed to a heart attack at 40, gives a grim picture of heart disease on the rise in young adults the world over<\/strong>. As of the 2018 stats, a little more than 30 million adults were diagnosed with heart disease in the United States. Every year, the US population shrinks by nearly 7 lakh lives claimed by heart disease, a leading cause of death in America. Several reports based on the 2019 stats showed that 1 in every 5 heart attack survivors was under 40.<\/p>\n Marissa Sumathipala, an undergraduate in neuroscience research and computational biology at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, was the first Indian American of Loudoun County, Virginia to have been a Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalist among 1800 contestants in 2018. She had received a scholarship of $25000 for her ground-breaking approach to reinventing the cardiovascular disease therapy for millions of people affected by heart ailments. Her take on the therapeutic treatment improves survival chances by 50 to 100%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n