Anuj Mohan
1976-June 11, 2006
Mountain View, California

Anuj Mohan of Mountain View, who worked as a engineer and software architect at KANA, a Menlo Park high-tech company for six years, died June 11 at El Camino Hospital. He was 30.

Mr. Mohan was injured in a near-drowning accident on May 17 at his apartment complex swimming pool. The accident left him with extensive brain damage and in a coma. He spent almost four weeks in the hospital before an infection finally took his life.

During his stay in the hospital, people flew in from around the world to visit and support him, according to his sister-in-law Hema Sareen Mohan.

Mr. Mohan was a graduate of MIT with bachelor's and master's degrees. He had just completed his first year in the MBA program at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

While living in the Bay Area, he founded and directed the Software Entrepreneurship lecture series of the 8,000-member MIT Alumni Association of Northern California.

When his father, Aditya Mohan, was diagnosed with kidney failure while living in India, Mr. Mohan worked to bring his parents back to this country and in touch with doctors at Stanford Medical Center, according to his brother, Neal Mohan. Six months ago, Mr. Mohan's father received a kidney transplant. Anuj Mohan became an active advocate for the National Kidney Foundation.

Mr. Mohan spent the first years of his life in Florida and Michigan before moving to India with his family in 1985. In 1994, he returned to the United States to attend MIT.

Mr. Mohan is survived by his mother, Dr. Deepa Mohan, father, Dr. Aditya Mohan; brothers Neal and Kapil Mohan, all of Mountain View.

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