Mary Verghese

If you are fighting for the right and a true principle, be calm and sure, and keep on until you win." So Ida set the standard.

She set the standard for pioneering medicine through women physicians, and some examples are Dr. Mary Varghese, who was handicapped by a tragic road accident during her medical training, but she persisted.

As the world's first wheelchair surgeon, she reshaped rehab medicine in India.

And in more recent years, uh, Dr. Priya Abraham, one of the leading virologists, headed the National Institute of Virology, and, in India, and Dr. Kang, a distinguished microbiologist and fellow of the Royal Society, is a trailblazer in global health.