Her childhood ambition was to follow in her father’s footsteps and become a doctor. When she grew up, her goal shifted to medical research.
At 26, Rinta Susan Mathew from Ennakkad, near Chengannur, is one step closer to fulfilling her cherished dream, now that she has bagged a ₹1.75-crore scholarship from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. She is among a small number of students from across the globe selected for the President’s Doctoral Scholar (PDS) Award from the university.
The high point is that she will be doing her PhD in Gastroenterology on the protective effects of a dietary combination developed by her father, Mathew K. Sam, an Ayurveda doctor, for acute pancreatitis. The research, titled ‘The protective effects of sprotone during acute pancreatitis’, will be supervised by Jason Bruce. “I am happy to be selected as one of the 10 PDS scholars,” says Ms. Mathew.
According to her, the product formulated by her father has been found to “overcome…