Washington(HT Media): Indian-American medical oncologist Sanjay Goel has won a USD 450,000 award for his unique, patient-oriented approach to colorectal cancer research.
Goel is a researcher at Montefiore Medical Centre and Albert Einstein College of Medicine has been presented with The American Society of Clinical Oncology Cancer Foundation's Advanced Clinical Research Award.

An Indian-American physical therapist has been sentenced to 57 months in prison and ordered to pay $2.3 million as compensation for his role in a healthcare fraud scheme.

Michigan resident Baskaran Thangarasan would also undergo three years of supervised release following his prison term.

Washington (HT Media): Daughter of an Indian mother and an African American father, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has won the Democratic primary for attorney general of California.
Harris easily outdistanced her main rival, Facebook executive Chris Kelly, and five other candidates in Tuesday’s primary. Kelly had sunk more than $12 million into the campaign.

New York (SATimes): Dr. Karuppiah Muthumani of Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia and his team are closer to developing a DNA vaccine against Chikungunya virus.

US President Barack Obama has lauded an Indian woman entrepreneur who came to America "to build your own dreams and be your own boss" and set up a successful technology services company.

This "promise of being able to build your own dreams and be your own boss led Prachee - Prachee Devadas to come to this country, become a citizen, and open up what's become a successful technology services company," he said at a White House event on Friday.

President Barack Obama has named an Indian American science teacher Radhika Plakkot as one of the 103 mathematics and science teachers for the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.