Vineet Singal: Swabbing cheeks to save lives
Channel: INKtalks
Date: 2012-07-21

http://inktalks.com Vineet Singal talks about how a group of 12 inexperienced, but infectiously enthusiastic students from Stanford managed to get more than 100,000 people to register as bone marrow donors, and conducted a campaign aimed at saving entrepreneur Amit Gupta's life.

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ABOUT VINEET SINGAL :
Named by The Huffington Post as one of the 'Top 10 Changemakers Under 40', Vineet Singal is a senior at Stanford University and leads 100KCheeks, an initiative to register 100,000 new bone marrow donors using the power of personal stories and social media.

Vineet is currently leading efforts to register a million bone marrow donors worldwide in 2012 and jumpstart the creation of national marrow registries in countries like India and Indonesia. 

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Subtitling Credits : Rishi Shah