Maanas Gupta

Maanas Gupta / 2024 Team Fundraising

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$4,586

Raised
$4,500

Goal
69

Supporters
18

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Nageander Shajpaul

$51.60 / 14 days ago

Excellent venture. Good luck.
Anil Modwel

$103.20 / 21 days ago

All the very best Maanas and team ! Very inspiring. Will await hearing about stories of the trip.
Adam Wende

$103.20 / 22 days ago

Thank you for your efforts to this worthwhile cause. Have fun with the personal challenge of completing the ride!
Archana Gupta

$50.00 / 30 days ago

Continue to follow your dream, also enjoy the life along your journey. Thank you for your genuine support to CA patients. Have a wonderful biking experience and stay healthy! ♥️ Archana
Shishir Shah

$30.00 / 32 days ago

All the best
Sailaja Saripalli

$100.00 / 33 days ago

Good luck Maanas
Ed Supkis

$103.20 / 35 days ago
Sonika Kotwal

$103.20 / 40 days ago

Wish you the best!!
Anisha Gupta

$51.60 / 46 days ago

All the best Maanas!
Mrinalini Kulkarni-Date

$75.00 / 47 days ago

Best of luck, Maanas! It has been inspiring to work with you!
Anonymous

$15.48 / 50 days ago

Good luck!!
Richa Dutta

$51.60 / 53 days ago

So proud of your dedication and effort for issues that matter to our community. All the best.
Reyna Trevino

$103.20 / 53 days ago

It has been a great pleasure to work with you. It brings great solace to see such amazing talent and compassion in our future doctors and researchers !
Anonymous

$46.44 / 53 days ago

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Sidharth Anantha

$15.00 / 54 days ago
Neil Chahil

$25.80 / 55 days ago

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Juan Bonilla

$51.60 / 55 days ago

Thank you for doing this
Kristina Kypuros

$103.20 / 55 days ago

You are an incredible young man with clarity of your future…May this journey create more paths for your limitless life ! Thank you for raising on such an important disease in our country !
Anonymous

$25.80 / 62 days ago

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Jeffrey Cheng

$25.00 / 65 days ago
Mrigayu Ghosh

$20.64 / 66 days ago

Keep up the great work!
Sahana Lothumalla

$10.00 / 68 days ago
Sudhanvan Iyer

$5.16 / 68 days ago

I know you will go on to do great things! Good luck!!!
Antaraa Sarkar

$5.16 / 68 days ago
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$5.16 / 69 days ago

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About Maanas Gupta

Hey Y'all!

My name is Maanas Gupta and I’m currently from Austin, Texas but I really consider myself more of a nomad. I’ve grown up all over the country from Alabama to Michigan, California to Boston, and finally here!

I’m currently a fourth-year biomedical engineering student and am hoping to matriculate to an M.D./Ph.D. program after graduating. Specifically, I specialize in conducting tissue engineering and regenerative medicine with a focus on cardiovascular medicine.

Outside of the lab, you can most likely find me in gym, playing volleyball. I’ve been playing for the past 5 years now and have been playing for UT’s men's club team for the past 2 as well! But besides that, I make myself at home anywhere but home. I absolutely love travel mainly for the food but also for the scenery in national parks. I’ve been lucky enough to hit almost every single park in the US and hoping to complete the list soon.

Why I Ride

Genetically changing a patient’s cells, leaving friends and family with only memories, implanting everlasting worry in the minds of loved ones – cancer truly changes everyone it touches.

I lived through sixteen years of naivety, only hearing what cancer can do, until my sophomore year in high school when an email arrived from my middle school in Delaware. My eighth-grade math teacher had just passed away from breast cancer. Thinking back, there was a period of two weeks where she had gone away for “vacation” and returned with a buzz cut; none of us thought anything of it at the time. Now understanding its significance, I truly realize how amazing she was, always greeting us with a smile and teaching us with such enthusiasm. She was easily the best teacher I had back then, driving me to always continue learning and growing. But she was so easily reduced to a simple memory and a name in an email; no one deserves that.

She wasn’t the only one. One of my gym teachers and their entire family. One of my cousin’s best friends. The patient I observed while shadowing last November. Cancer has always been a dense topic and sometimes even felt taboo making patients fight for their lives alone in fear and pain. And those of us who aren’t directly affected kept walking through our lives in ignorance. “Ignorance is bliss” they say. Not this time. These patients and their families need to know they aren’t and will never be fighting alone.

More than anything, I am a scientist aspiring to fight at the front line of oncology both in the lab and by the patient. In my research team, we are developing a novel delivery mechanism to target and deliver anti-cancer agents to brain cancer, specifically glioblastoma multiforme. Aside from my own work, I continuously stay up to date with the latest progression within the realm of oncology. There have been 40 new FDA approvals in oncology, and rapid developments in CAR-T, exosomes, epigenetics, gene therapy and immunoengineering. New technologies like spherical nucleic acids, and even “vaccines” are being rapidly developed and adapted for cancer. These words may not mean anything significant to the general public, but to me they are the newest revolutions that have worked and fully ridden tumors in animal trials and are ready to proceed to clinical trials. As scientists we are pushing harder than ever to make it happen for humans. The end is almost here.

So, I ride for hope. Hope that scientific innovation will soon help our communities beat cancer forever. But specifically I ride for my math teacher. I ride for my gym teacher and his family. I ride for all my teammates. I ride for every other patient who feels even slightly alone in their fight against cancer.

If cancer has impacted you/your family, or anyone you know, I would be honored to hear your/their story and ride for you/them as well. Please reach out to me at gupta.maanas@utexas.edu

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Maanas Gupta

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