Medical Miracles Start Here
University of Texas at Austin, biomedical engineering major
What if it were possible to regrow an organ—specifically a heart, since heart disease patients may have to wait years for a transplant? That question has shaped Ramamoorthy's work in the lab at UT Austin.
"By manipulating cells using things like magnets, I'm investigating how to produce a living network of heart cells," she says. It's slow work ("We fail over and over"), but Ramamoorthy and the research team have seen cells beat together. "When I showed the video to my family," she says, "they finally understood what I was doing."
We teamed her with: Glamour introduced all our winners to mentors in their respective fields. Ramamoorthy spoke to U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, M.D., who said: "I began my first nonprofit at 17. I learned you're never too young or too old to create change."
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