Glimpses 2009-2010.pdf - LV Prasad Eye Institute

THE PROF BRIEN HOLDEN EYE RESEARCH CENTRE
Champalimaud Translational Centre for Eye Research • Kallam Anji Reddy Molecular Genetics
Laboratory • Sudhakar & Sreekanth Ravi Stem Cell Biology Laboratory • Jhaveri Microbiology
Centre • Saroja A Rao Immunology Laboratory • Biochemistry Laboratory • Ophthalmic
Pathology Laboratory • Visual Optics and Psychophysics • Clinical research
EYE RESEARCH
Understanding vision loss and
its management
While we peer into the microscope in the pathology laboratory or study the cultures
emerging on various media in microbiology, or wait for the titres to show an unexpected
pattern in our biochemistry or molecular biology labs, or search for that mutation that
appears to be associated with developmental glaucoma, we are also pulling back at an intellectual level
to see how the microscopic scale relates to the lives of the people who walk into the eye hospital or
are examined in the field, day after day.
Science plods along through painstaking laboratory moments, many years of study and repeat study is
needed before the work yields knowledge useful to human application. The past year at the Prof Brien
Holden Eye Research Centre and all its constituent laboratories was both eventful and routine; we
had our share of “aha!” moments while also progressing steadily in our quest to answer some of the
challenging questions in vision science. Knowledge is slowly but surely moving into the translational
sphere, with nearly 100 publications over the year and 341 presentations at national and international
meetings! We also helped launch the research careers of three young vision scientists who received
their doctoral degrees through the University of Hyderabad and Birla Institute of Technology & Science
(BITS), Pilani.
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