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Natarajan ("N.") Kanagasundaram, also known as NK Sundaram and Kanaga Sundaram is a medical doctor who was born in Omaloor, Tamilnadu, India on October 12, 1944. He came to the United States to do advanced studies in medicine, eventually landing a multifaceted position at the [1] in Newark, NJ. There, he was a doctor who saw patients, a lecturer, and a laboratory researcher. While at a conference one day, he heard [2], the head of the GI research department posit a theory: that the body has an immunological response to alcohol. Dr. Kanagasundaram raised his hand then and said, "If it's so, prove it!", to which Dr. Leevy said, "Come work in my lab".

Thus was born a daring multiyear research project proving the relationship between alcohol and hepatitis via a [3].

Dr. Kanagasundaram went on to work with [4] of NYU who demonstrated transferable immunity. In other words, one could develop immunity via certain chemicals, imported through blood transfusions, or otherwise gathered from one person's blood and distributed to another's. This was the basis of [5] and antibodies.

Interestingly, the test that was developed - that is, the [6] but, as the culture changed, people started to need consciously donate tissue for medical research. As test-tissues became less available, the patented and ground-breaking research dwindled. Dr. Kanagasundaram went on from liver research to GI medicine and, eventually, private practice in immunology in New Jersey.

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  1. ^ University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey(UMDNJ)
  2. ^ Dr. Carroll M. Leevy
  3. ^ monoclonal antibody test
  4. ^ Dr. Lawrence Sherwood
  5. ^ ground-breaking research on alcoholic hyalin
  6. ^ test for hepatitis caused by alcohol consumption - was patented

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