Sameer Bhatia was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML), which is a cancer of the blood. He was in urgent need of a bone marrow transplant. Sameer was a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who had just gotten married in 2006.

Sameer Bhatia, whose brave struggle against leukemia was documented at HelpSameer.org and caught the imagination of South Asians across the U.S., died on Thursday, March 27, 2008, in Seattle. For more info, to help others, and to get involved, please visit helpsameer.org