Byline: Shirish N. Kavadi
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‘Around the world-flung field, for healing for mankind’: Indian Philanthropy and European Leukaemia Research
By Shirish N. Kavadi In the early twentieth century leukaemia was a major mystery in medical science. Research into the disease was constrained by lack of or inadequate funding. The Lady Tata Memorial Trust (LTMT) established in 1932 in Bombay was among the earliest philanthropic efforts to provide fellowships and grants to some of the leading…