Dr. Shyamala G. Harris, a world-renowned scientist, teacher, civil rights activist and mother, died of cancer on Feb 11, 2009. She was 70 years old and is survived by her daughters, Kamala and Maya, and her granddaughter, Meena.

In the clip, Barkan, a Medicare for All advocate who has ALS, asks the California senator about the day her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was diagnosed with colon cancer, which Harris has...

The presidential candidate’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was a breast cancer researcher whose egalitarian politics often bucked a patriarchal lab culture. Kamala Harris with her mother ...

As the story goes, Gopalan arrived in the U.S. as a 19-year-old student in 1958 and plunged into the civil-rights movement in Berkeley, Calif., where she met the Jamaica-born economist Donald...

Shyamala Gopalan Cause Of Death Gopalan passed on, on February 11, 2009, in Oakland, California, United States from colon cancer. She died at the age of 7o leaving behind her two daughters and granddaughter.

Ms Gopalan, who died in February 2009 at 70 from colon cancer, is known around the world for making significant discoveries about the role of hormones in breast cancer. This video can not be...

Ms Gopalan, who died in February 2009 at 70 from colon cancer, is known around the world for making significant discoveries about the role of hormones in breast cancer. Kamala Harris' ancestral...

Dr. Shyamala G. Harris, a world-renowned scientist and a friend of Breast Cancer Action, died of cancer in 2009. She was a pioneer in the study of the progesterone receptor gene and its role in breast biology and cancer.

Gopalan died of colon cancer in 2009, as Harris was running for attorney general of California.