Her husband, Ranadive, was a great help in her postgraduate studies in Cytology; this subject had been chosen by her father.

Her guide was V. R. Khanolkar, a pathologist of repute and the founder of the Indian Cancer Research Centre (ICRC).

She obtained a postdoctoral research fellowship to work on tissue culture techniques and work with George Gey (famous for his laboratory innovation, the HeLa cell line) in his laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

[4] Ranadive, on her return to India, rejoined ICRC and started her professional career as a Senior Research Officer.

[7] From 1966 to 1970 she had assumed the mantle of the Director of the Indian Cancer Research Centre in an acting capacity.

[8] In the early 1960s, she along with her assistants (whom she had inducted into ICRC) in the fields of biology and chemistry, developed tissue culture media and related reagents.

Another notable achievement was in establishing a link to the susceptibility of cancer and hormones and tumour virus relationship.

[10] Malignancies of genetic origin in children and abnormal states of the blood, known as dyscrasias received her special attention.

[21] Some of the papers are: (1) Betel quid chewing and oral cancer: Experimental studies on hamsters;[22] (2) Effect of Urethan on Nucleic Acids;[23] (3) Influence of splenectomy on the development of leukemia in male mice of the ICRC strain;[24] (4) Characterisation of mammary tumour virus of strain ICRC mouse.