vijay awards 2011 Manasvi Koul was not supposed to have suffered a relapse of Hodgkin's lymphoma, but she did. When the disease progressed, doctors weren't sure she could recover, but she did. In the worst of times during the illness, doctors and nurses said they didn't expect to hear laughter from her hospital room, but they did. Now Koul, 18, is planning for a heavy workload this fall, when she enters the prestigious Wharton School of business at the University of Pennsylvania. She might not have chosen to keep nurturing the foundation she started, aimed at saving others' lives. But she did. "The foundation is what keeps me going," says Koul, a recent graduate of Marvin Ridge High School in southwestern Union County.
I'm committed to helping prevent others from going through what I faced." Koul faced death. She needed a stem cell transplant in 2007, as Hodgkin's lymphoma sapped her strength. But Koul, then living with her family in Ottawa, Ontario, discovered that stem cell donors are few and far between for racial minorities. Born in India, Koul eventually had to rely on her own stem cells. Doctors removed them from her body and reintroduced them after treatment. At first, the treatment didn't seem to be working. Koul's health continued to slip. In December 2007, she and her parents - Anjali and Vijay - came to visit family members in the Charlotte area. "We thought it might be the last chance for Ma
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