Arupa Ganguly

So my name is Arupa Ganguly.

I'm a professor in the Department of Genetics at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Now you can imagine that getting a normal retina is not a very easy task because why would you get a normal retina from a baby?

I must tell you that if and when an eyeball comes, it is not a pleasant experience, right?

Because for a moment you have to think the origin, the sources of this eyeball.

And it's sad.

In every possible setting, it's sad.

Because only when a normal child dies, that's when I can get this retina.

So it's a horrible setup in my mind.

You, right away, you feel like.

I mean, it's so bad when a child dies, but I am asking for his or her retina.

In a way, I had this sense of guilt in my head.

I paused.

I stopped doing what I was doing.

And I thought...

why does the mother want to talk to me?

That was my first question.

So I did not reply right away.

But after my conversation with the lab, I took, I think, one day to compose a letter and I sent it back to Sarah Gray.

I told her, I think, at the very onset that, Sarah, you have to understand that I feel awful.