Irom Chanu Sharmila

Also known as Iron Lady of Manipur, Mengoubi

Indian civil rights activist

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5 total works indexed

Discovery, research, and development of new antibiotics: the WHO priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and tuberculosis
· 2018 · cited 5,286x
The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,226x
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes
· 2020 · cited 2,770x
Mutations in PCSK9 cause autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia
· 2003 · cited 2,564x
Nonbiopsy Diagnosis of Cardiac Transthyretin Amyloidosis
· 2016 · cited 1,833x

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Born: ( 1972-03-14 ) 14 March 1972 (age 54) , Kongpal, Imphal , Manipur , India
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Irom Sharmila Chanu (born 14 March 1972), also known as the "Iron Lady of Manipur" or "Mengoubi" ("the fair one") is an Indian civil rights activist and poet from the state of Manipur. In 2000, she began a hunger strike to abolish the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958. She ended her intermittent fast in 2016, after being force-fed for over 500 weeks in custody. Amnesty International has declared her a prisoner of conscience.

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