From The Boston Globe:
Perhaps because his academic background was in a different realm, Pallab Banerjee became a key researcher in an effort at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to devise a new way of looking inside the body, without surgery, to monitor how treatments affect tumors.
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Dr. Banerjee, whose devotion to scientific research was matched only by his affection for his wife and 10-year-old daughter, died May 10 in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of pneumonia and septic shock, though results of further tests on the cause are pending. He was 47 and lived in Roslindale.
“He was a very dedicated scientist,‘’ said his wife, Sucharita Sen Banerjee, a researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. "All his life he wanted to do research, so that he could help people. His goal was to do something that can be applied. He never liked to do science that didn’t have an application.’’