Name of Awardee Position Year of award Name of the award Awarding organization Event details Title of project or abstract or work that it was awarded to
Subhradeep Sarkar PhD student 2023 Best Research Poster  Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Sartorius Biosimilar Workshop ‘Biopharmaceutical Product Development’,Goa, India AAV mediated gene therapy to restore deficiency of ECM Proteins in the keratoconic cornea
Vrushali Deshpande Principal Investigator 2023 ARVO Foundation Travel award ARVO Foundation for Eye and Vision Research, USA The Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting – 2023, USA “Untargeted metabolomics identifies Myristoleolyl Carnitine as a tear based detector for bacterial endophthalmitis
Tanuja Arun Vaidya PhD student 2023 Bright Focus Foundation travel award Bright Focus Foundation, USA XVth biennial meeting of the International Society for Eye Research (ISER), Australia Targetting intercellular adhension molecule 1 (ICAM1) mediated effects in the management of diabetic retinopathy
Nallathambi Jeyabalan Principal Investigator 2023 Best of IJO Certificate Indian Journal of Opthalamology Indian Journal of Opthalmology – Special issue on Rare Eye Diseases Rare Eye Diseases in India: A concise review of genes and genetics.
Machiraju Praveen PhD Student 2023 Paul dudley white international scholar award The American heart association Vascular Discovery:From genes to medicine, 2023 – Boston,MA Telomerase reverse transcriptase protects against oxldl induced endothelial dysfunction by positivly regulating autophagy
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Nithin kiran PhD student 2022 karamichos Utheim Kerataconous travel grant award ARVO Foundation for Eye and Vision Research, USA The Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting – 2022, USA Rescue of Lysyl Oxidase levels by Batimastat and Trehalose treatment in human corneal stromal tissue and cell models: implications for Keratoconus therapy
Rahul P Patil PhD student 2022 ARVO Foundation Travel award ARVO Foundation for Eye and Vision Research, USA The Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting – 2022, USA Unique structural differences between thin cornea and asymmetric keratoconus quantified using Polarization Sensitive – Optical Coherence Tomography (PS-OCT)
Divyani Nayak PhD student 2022 IERG-ARVO India- Travel grant award IERG- ARVO India Indian Eye Research Group-ARVO India, Annual meeting, 2022, LVPEI, Hyderabad Efficient genearation of iPSC derived corneal endothelial cells via neural crest fate induction.
Name of Awardee Position Year of award Name of the award Awarding organization Event details Title of project or abstract or work that it was awarded to
Tanuja Arun Vaidya PhD student 2020 Kreissing travel grant ARVO Foundation for Eye and Vision Research, USA The Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting – 2020, USA Inverse levels of vitreous humor resolvins with inflamamtory and angiogenic factors in diabetic retinopathy and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment
Name of Awardee Position Year of award Name of the award Awarding organization Event details Title of project or abstract or work that it was awarded to
Shivapriya S Post Doctoral fellow 2019 ARVO-International travel grant award ARVO Foundation for Eye and Vision Research, USA The Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting – 2019, Canada Vitamin D enhances the autophagic lysosomal clearance in oxidatively stressed human corneal epithelial cells: A therapeutic intervention for keratoconus.
Swaminathan Sethu Principal Investigator 2019 Roche Collaborative Research Fellowship ARVO Foundation for Eye and Vision Research, USA The Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting – 2019 USA Intraocular immune cell profiling in dry age-related macular degeneration
Swaminathan Sethu Principal Investigator 2019 Indian Immunology Society Bursary Award Indian Immunology Society IUIS-IIS-FIMSA course “Basic and Advanced Translational Immunology” Immune balance perturbations in ocular diseases
Nikhil Ashok PhD student 2019 SIRCON 2019 – Travel award Society of Inflammatory research, India 3rd Annual conference of Society of Inflammatory research, 2019 Tear molecular profiling at ocular surface shows correlation for disease severity in patients with Steven Johnson Syndrome
Name of Awardee Position Year of award Name of the award Awarding organization Event details Title of project or abstract or work that it was awarded to
Ruchita Selot Post Doctoral Fellow 2018 ARVO-International Travel Grant Award ARVO Foundation for Eye and Vision Research, USA The Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting – 2018, USA Increased Expression of Retinoic Acid-Related Orphan Receptor Gamma (RORg) Transcription Factor and Its Products in Keratoconus Patients
Mathew Francis PhD student 2018 Publication grant ARVO Foundation for Eye and Vision Research, USA Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science In vivo prediction of air-puff induced corneal deformation using LASIK, SMILE and PRK finite element simulations
Name of Awardee Position Year of award Name of the award Awarding organization Event details Title of project or abstract or work that it was awarded to
Shivapriya S Post Doctoral fellow 2017 IERG-ARVO India- Travel grant award IERG- ARVO India Indian Eye Research Group-ARVO India, Annual meeting, 2017, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India Oxidative stress induces dysregulated autophagy through Akt/mTOR in corneal epithelium of keratoconus patients
Shivapriya S Post Doctoral fellow 2017 IERG-ARVO India- Best oral presentation Award IERG- ARVO India Indian Eye Research Group-ARVO India, Annual meeting, 2017, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India Oxidative stress induces dysregulated autophagy through Akt/mTOR in corneal epithelium of keratoconus patients
Machiraju Praveen PhD Student 2017 SGRF genomics grant award SciGenome Research foundation NGBT Annual conference-2017, Bhubeneshwar A Comparative study on gene expression between fused and unfused sutures in non-syndromic craniosynostosis
Nimisha Rajivkumar PhD student 2017 Best Poster award SciGenome Research foundation NGBT Annual conference-2017, Bhubeneshwar Trancriptome profiling reveals novel expression markers that predispose patients to develop post photorefractive keratectomy corneal hoze
Name of Awardee Position Year of award Name of the award Awarding organization Event details Title of project or abstract or work that it was awarded to
Nallathambi Jeyabalan Principal Investigator 2016 ARVO International Travel Grant ARVO Foundation for Eye and Vision Research, USA The Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting – 2016, USA mTOR- mediated defective autophagic regulation in Keratoconus patients and human corneal epithelial cells: An understanding of the mechanism and pathogenesis of disease
Mathew Francis PhD student 2016 International Travel Support award Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India XXII Biennial meeting of the International Society for Eye Research (ISER), 2016, Tokyo, Japan Next-generation comprehensive diagnosis of suspect and keratoconus eyes using high-resolution tomography and biomechanics: Thinking beyond topography
Name of Awardee Position Year of award Name of the award Awarding organization Event details Title of project or abstract or work that it was awarded to
Arkasubhra Ghosh Principal Investigator 2015 ARVO International Travel Grant ARVO Foundation for Eye and Vision Research, USA The Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting – 2015, USA Discovery of novel cell cycle regulatory and signal transduction modules driving Retinoblastoma using a correlative multi-omics approach