Amit Gupta

National Donor Day: Inspiring Stories And Ways To Take Action

Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Social Media, Heart-in-a-Box, Arthur Caplan, Clay Taber, Organ Donation, Amit Gupta, Amy-Destefano, Heart in a Box, Dana Farber, Allison Batson, National Donor Day, Video, Impact News

Today is about showing love in more than just the traditional way. Valentine's Day also marks National Donor Day, which highlights ways people can sav...

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Facebook Saved This Man's Life!

Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Bone Marrow Registry, Video, Amit Gupta, Dana Farber, Acute Leukemia Treatment, Bone Marrow Match, Amit Gupta Bone Marrow, Photojojo, Acute Leukemia, Impact News

With the help of more than 100 bone marrow drives and a full-blown social media offensive, Amit Gupta has found a lifesaving match, the co-founder of ...

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A Perfect Match: A Social Media Love Story

Vineet Singal | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Bone Marrow Registry, Bone Marrow Transplant, Bone Marrow Donation, Amit Gupta Bone Marrow, Amit Gupta, Leukemia, Bone Marrow, Impact News
Vineet Singal

Cancer can affect any of us. Perhaps our child. Our brother or sister. Our parent. Our friend. We must increase the number of bone marrow donors registered, not just to save my friend Amit, but to protect our community. Join us.

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Help Amit Gupta: $30,000 Reward Offered For Bone Marrow Match

Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Rewards, Bone Marrow Registry, Seth Godin, Bone Marrow Transplant, Video, Bone Marrow Donation, Amit-Gupta-Bone-Marrow, Amit Gupta, Impact News

When Amit Gupta learned of his acute leukemia diagnosis last month, he wasn't shy about asking for help -- and neither were his tech-savvy friends. ...

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Can Social Media Save Amit Gupta?

Porter Gale | Posted 12.12.2011

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Porter Gale

Amit, a member of the San Francisco tech community, has leukemia. He is also South Asian, a population that is dramatically under-represented in existing bone marrow registries.

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Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan...

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Black Tulips, The Night Is Darkest Before the Dawn, Mahmud Tarzi, Public Theatre, Canopy of Stars, Colin Teevan, Edwin Starr, Soraya Tarzi, Amit Gupta, Durand?S Line, Lee Blessing, Ron Hutchinson, The Lion of Kabul, Siba Shakib, Daniel Rabin, Wikileaks, Simon Stephens, Bugles at the Gates of Jalalabad, Wood for the Fire, Tom McKay, Michael Cochrane, Malalai Anaa, Nabil Elouahabi, Now Is the Time, Shereen Martineau, Tariq Khan, Sir Mortimer Durand, Berkeley Rep, Stephen Jeffreys, Abi Morgan, Miniskirts of Kabul, Jemma Redgrave, Indhu Rubasingham, Nicolas Kent, On the Side of the Angels, Amir Abdul Rahman, David Greig, The Great Game: Afghanistan, Raad Rawi, Rick Warden, Ben Ockrent, Ahmed Zia Massoud, Mohammad Najibullah, Danny Rahim, Karl Davies, Vincent Ebrahim, Cloudia Swann, David Edgar, Amanullah Khan, Joy Wilkinson, Stanley McChrystal, Richard Bean, James Kite, Hillary Clinton, Daniel Betts, Sheena Bhattessa, Tricycle Theatre, Elphinstone, Arts News
George Heymont

If The Great Game: Afghanistan and 150 years of that country's history proves anything, it is that this miserable area of the world is a black hole that baffles armies, swallows invaders, and eats its young. No one wins.

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