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Research Labs and Focus Areas

• Champalimaud Translational Centre for Eye Research • Ophthalmic Pathology Laboratory
• Kallam Anji Reddy Molecular Genetics Laboratory • Clinical Research
• Sudhakar and Sreekanth Ravi Stem Cell Biology Laboratory • Vision Psychophysics Laboratories
• Jhaveri Microbiology Centre & Saroja A Rao Immunology Laboratory • Allen Foster Community Eye Health Research Centre
• Biochemistry Laboratory • Srujana Center for Innovation

Prof Brien Holden Eye Research Centre Developments During the Year

260 Publications 243Presentations Prestigious conferences where presentations were made include
153 national American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, American Academy
in peer reviewed journals of Ophthalmology, Association for Research in Vision Ophthalmology,
Total impact factor - 524.50 90 international American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus,
Average impact factor - 2.11 All India Ophthalmological Society, etc.

54 Research 29 Basic 15 Clinical 7 Public health 3 Low vision 30+
and rehabilitation
Grants Awards

Key Symposia and Workshops won by LVPEI
scientists,

ophthalmologists
and fellow students

for research.

Tenth Annual Champalimaud Symposium: The Champalimaud

Oration “VEGF: From discovery to therapy” was delivered by Prof Joan
W Miller, Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School; Chief of
Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, USA. The other notable invited
lectures were by Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Secretary, ICMR and Dr Niyaz Ahmed. Dr
Deeba Hussain, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School also
attended the meeting.

Dr Leonor Beleza, Chair, Champalimaud Foundation and Dr GN Rao gave away the Champalimaud
Oration award to Joan W Miller.

Medical Research Council and Government of India Department for Biotechnology Workshop: The MRC-DBT Workshop on “Exploring

biology of antibiotic resistance and potential targets for early diagnosis and effective management of infectious diseases” jointly organized with the
University of Sheffield, UK had scientists from University of Bradford, University of Sheffield, besides several other universities and institutes from across
India. Three priority areas of research were identified for collaborations: drug delivery systems using nanoparticles, understanding biofilms using synthetic
biofilms like hydrogels and developing non-antibiotic strategies for tackling infection.

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Centre for Ocular Regeneration Meet: The annual CORE meeting had two invited Indian Eye Research Group: The highlight of the IERG

guests from Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad - Dr Rakesh Mishra, meet was the interactive poster session on various topics
Director, spoke on ‘Zebra fish model systems in gene regulation’ and Dr Kiran Kumar, Scientist, pertaining to eye research.
on ‘Therapeutic applications of neural stem cells’.

Eminent Visitors: Prof Brian Cantor, Vice Chancellor; Prof Stephen Rimmer, Head, School of

Chemistry; and Mark Garratt, Director of External Affairs; University of Bradford (UoB), UK; Visited
on 16 November 2016 to explore the possibility of mutual collaboration. UoB and LVPEI are already
collaborating in two programs funded by Wellcome Trust and MRC aimed at developing smart
polymers for detection of infection in the eye and targeted delivery of antimicrobials.

Prestigious Lectures the highest APAO award in Prevention of Blindness, 32nd Asia-Pacific
Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) Congress, Singapore; Title: Blindness
• Mohammad Javed Ali, delivered Rhinocon Medal Keynote Lecture, All Profile and Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness in Southeast Asia.
India Rhinology Society, Annual Meet, Hyderabad; Title: Difficult and (b) G Venkataswamy Oration at Tamil Nadu Academy of Ophthalmology,
Extremely difficult Endoscopic DCRs. Vellore; Title: Translating eye health pyramid (c) Dr TNC Vedantham
Memorial Oration lecture, Chennai; Title: Contemporary retinal imaging
• Subhabrata Chakrabarti, lead speaker, Thermofisher Genetics Solutions technology in diabetic retinopathy - down the innovation lane.
World Tour Symposium; Title: Next Generation Sequencing in Ocular • Subhadra Jalali, delivered (a) the first Prof Syedur Rahman Memorial
Genomics Research. Lecture, Biennial Seminar Bangladesh Vitreo-Retina Society; Title:
Neonatal blindness and ROP: A clinical perspective (b) Dr R P Tandon
• Jay Chhablani, delivered the APVRS (Asia-Pacific Vitreo-retina Society) oration, mid-term conference, Jharkhand Ophthalmological Society and
first Ian Constable Lecture, 10th APVRS Congress, Bangkok; Title: Clinical
effects and economic impact of intravitreal Ziv-aflibercept.

• Taraprasad Das, delivered (a) William Holmes lecture and award -

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Bihar Ophthalmological Society; Title: An overview of endophthalmitis and • S Shivaji, delivered (a) Inaugural lecture, "Microbial Resource Centers and
its treatment: 25 years of fighting and understanding endophthalmitis. Conservation of Microbial Diversity" international meet and 13th meeting
• Srinivas Marmamula, delivered the prestigious ‘The Rich Lecture’ at of the "Asian Consortium For the Conservation and Sustainable Use of
University of Alabama at Birmingham, sponsored by the Loris and David Microbial Resources", Chandigarh; Title: Bacteria, genes and genomes
Rich Lecture series in visual science, Alabama, USA; Title: Public Eye Health from Antarctica, Arctic, Himalayan glaciers and Stratosphere (b) Prof
Research at LVPEI. Bishwambar Rajguru oration sponsored by Odisha State Ophthalmological
• Virender S Sangwan, delivered (a) First oration, Indian Society of Cornea Society, Bhubaneswra; Title: Transition from cold loving microbes to ocular
and Kerato refractive Surgeons conference, New Delhi; Title: Tackling end- microbes.
stage corneal Blindness (b) Rustom Ranji Oration, Telangana Ophthalmic
Society; Title: Treatment of end-stage corneal disease - a ray of hope. • Inderjeet Kaur, delivered keynote lecture, Koti Women’s College,
Hyderabad; Title: Opportunities and Careers in Science and Research.

Research Highlight of the Year - Engineered Stem Cells to Treat Challenging Eye Disorders

Skin-Biopsy Skin Cell Culture Genetically Engineered Stem Cells

The stem cell research team at Miniature Eye Ball
the LVPEI has been successfully
treating some forms of corneal
surface disorders using autologous
limbal stem cells. However, there
is a need for alternative stem
cell sources for the treatment of
bilateral corneal defects and other
retinal degenerative conditions.

The group has established a
method of genetically converting
a patient's skin cells into stem cells
that can form different parts of an
eye such as the retina and cornea
resembling those of an adult eye.

Miniature Cornea Miniature Retina

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Innovation

When I first spoke to Ramesh Raskar of MIT Innovative Multidisciplinary Partnerships
Media Lab about solving some challenges to Accelerate Community Transformation
we face in the clinic, it led to the first and Sustainability), BIPP grant from the
Hackathon in 2013. We dreamed boldly, Govt of India’s Biotechnology Industry
excited to interact with a 100 bright young Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), and
minds and rethink the delivery of eye Grand Challenges Canada. Going forward,
care. Over the years, Srujana has grown we want to connect the entire LVPEI
from a small room to the now world-class network through teleophthalmology. We
Innovation Center, our ideas graduating are also working on developing special
to clinical testing in our patients. In the contact lenses in-house that can be used
past four years, Srujana has launched 5 by patients with complex ocular diseases,
products, currently ready for production and making them more affordable and
and implementation in the LVPEI network accessible to all.
- Pupil +, Open Indirect Ophthalmosocope, As we conduct the 5th edition in 2017 of
Paediatric Perimeter, Folding Phoropter our flagship Hackathon, ’Engineering the
and eyeSmart EMR App. Eye’, it is a humbling experience to know
The ophthalmic engineering lab is going that there are over 800 applications from
strong with competitive grants worth engineering and design schools across the
over 10 crore from agencies such as IC- country, where we accept 80 students
IMPACTS (the India-Canada Centre for assigned to 20 mentors.

Virender Singh Sangwan

Director,

Srujana Center for Innovation

Srujana Center for Innovation 4 yAes aiMnrtes1rnoa2srfnerodomtnh329dagi0fnfoImpenir5aepntanh0tugtejeoifrbinresfplil4tdntgriussacolrodsaapfjfteesianrtntglcuiiettedotzsssydsenss 2014201-7 Sri KT Rama Rao, IT Minister for Telangana and BVR Mohan Reddy, Executive Chairman
of CYIENT and Chairman of NASSCOM inaugurating the new facility of Srujana Center for
Innovation at LVPEI’s Hyderabad campus, 22 August 2016.

4th Edition of Engineering the Eye workshop was organized in association with Camera
Culture group at MIT Media Labs. The one-week extensive workshop witnessed the
highly energetic and young participants challenging the problem statements, and
brainstorming and discussing about the innovative solutions with the LVPEI clinicians
and scientists. It was attended by the best of engineers, designers, doctors and
entrepreneurs.
This year, the introductory Tej Kohli Cornea
Institute (TKCI) – Srujana Award went to
a portable device for measuring corneal
topography. The product will be incubated at
the centre with support from TKCI.

Product Innovation

Pediatric Perimeter, a first of its kind device in Asia, built to quantify the visual fields in infants,

has been tested on 160 babies (3 - 10 months age). The product was among the 15 projects that
were selected from across the country to be showcased at the “Innovations in Medical Science
and Biotechnology” at Rashtrapati Bhavan as part of Festival of Innovations for the year 2017.

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The Folding Phoropter, a low-cost and easy-to-assemble device

developed to perform eye test to quickly spot refractive errors, especially
during mass screening and other similar public health initiatives in rural
areas and low resource settings, won the Clearly Vision Prize’s second
place worth $ 50,000 from among 100 entries across 21 countries. 20
devices were sent to the World Economic Forum at Davos where Clearly
founder James Chen and his team represented Folding Phoropter to the
delegates from the world across, talking about most effective ways to
curb the world's largest eye problem - refractive error.

Holo Eye Anatomy, module for the cornea, published on the Microsoft Open Indirect
Ophthalmoscope,
Hololens, is a sophisticated device worn on your head to help one see
the human eye anatomy in 3 D perspective. This will make learning more OWL is an open-source, ultra
experiential, enabling one to holistically study the cornea and also split low-cost, portable screening
individual parts to the component layers to study them in detail. device for retinal diseases.
The device integrates into
Ophthalmic Engineering a massive online grading
system (theia) built by our
partners at MIT Media Labs.
The product was shortlisted
as finalist in the global The
Hackaday Prize, with the
team having won USD 2000
in the “automation” category.

Preventive Maintenance Training

LVPEI’s biomedical and vision technicians were trained for
preventive maintenance, smooth functioning and major
refurbishments of ophthalmic instruments. Till date over 150

technicians from across LVPEI’s tertiary, secondary and primary eye care
centres have been trained. Advantages:
• Basic maintenance of the instruments can be handled by the vision

technicians now and thus their dependability on the skilled technicians
from tertiary and advanced tertiary centres has reduced
• This will eventually bring down the overall maintenance cost of the
instruments

Microscopy in the eye Image of the retina cells taken
through AOSLO with a resolution
Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope (AOSLO), first of 2.3 microns

of its kind in the Asia Pacific Region, was built in LVPEI in collaboration with
the University of Rochester to capture vivo ultra high resolution images
of human retina. Earlier biopsy (where cells are extracted from the eye)
was the only option to study the cells. But now with this we can examine
live cells in the retina non-evasively. This is useful to both clinicians and
researchers. Advantages:
• It helps in studying not only the structure of the cells, but also

determines the function of the cell
• Could help in early diagnosis of the disease and in monitoring the cell

health for a longer duration

Accessibility and Affordability

Ophthalmologist at the With an aim to provide the best eye care to the rural community, Teleophthalmic slit
Tele-ophthalmology control centre lamps were built in-house and placed at 7 locations across the LVPEI network, including

vision centres and secondary centres in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and one in
Maharashtra, each about 300 Kms away from Hyderabad. Advantages:
• 250 patients have been examined by the consultants sitting at LVPEI’s Hyderabad campus
• Timely intervention and clinical management of the disease
• Patients save on their travel cost and time

Patient at remote location Graphical User Interface

Universal Image Capturing System (UICS) software, helps in capturing

clinical images and is compatible with any medical instrument. It also helps in
building database of diagnostics images. Advantages:
• Helps in capturing detailed image and highlights features, which otherwise

are not visible
• Increases the clinician's productivity in clinical diagnosis
• Less time consuming and thus enables the clinician to see more patients

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Rajkumar Seksaria Late Shri Govindram Seksaria Nandkumar Seksaria

From the Family of the Cotton King of the World

The late Shri Govindram Seksaria, famously known as the “Cotton King of the World”, 

was a successful businessman who ventured into the industry starting with oil business
and later diversified into sugar, textile, minerals, banking, printing and motion pictures. He
was also actively involved in the freedom struggle of India. An ardent philanthropist, he
generously contributed towards educational, humanitarian and public causes.

Shri Seksaria was also a principal donor for the Bombay Hospital at Mumbai and many
reputed educational and medical institutions are named after the Seskaria family. When he
died in 1946, all the major markets in India, including the stock exchange, bullion exchange
and cotton exchange, remained closed in his honor.    

Rajkumar and Nandkumar Seksaria, grandsons of Govindram Seksaria, manage his

business and the trusts which run various institutions. The family has in the past funded
the emergency examination room at LVPEI. The Institute of Dacryology at LVPEI, the first of
its kind in the world, got a big boost with a pledge of support from the Govindram Seksaria

Charity Trust. The Govindram Seksaria Institute of Dacryology was inaugurated in

October 2016. Dacryology deals with the watering of the eyes and disorders of the tear
drainage that can lead to impaired tear flow, resultant watering and infections. The centre is
equipped with state-of-the-art operating suites and a dedicated  team of specifically trained
optometrists and ophthalmologists.

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A World Free of Avoidable Blindness

Mrs & Mr Jagdish M Chanrai Mr Jagdish M Chanrai, an entrepreneur

and philanthropist, believes that the private
sector should use its entrepreneurial expertise
and professionalism for the greater good. This
guided his efforts in establishing the Tulsi Chanrai
Foundation in Nigeria and Mission for Vision in
India.
Mr Chanrai has always been deeply conscious of
the need to reduce the inequity in society, and this
gave rise to his philosophy of "Caring Capitalism".
It has always been his desire to devote a
significant portion of his time and income to help
those in need and he is an ardent advocate of this
philosophy.
The eastern part of the country, marked by high
levels of poverty and need, is largely bereft of
the capacity to enable transformational change
for people with visual impairment, both with
avoidable and irreversible vision loss. It was in
response to this need that Mr Chanrai decided to
support the strengthening of LVPEI’s Bhubaneswar
campus to the stature of Centre of Excellence. The
support was extended in collaboration with the
Kewalram Chanrai Group and the Enpee Group.
In appreciation of his support, the campus is now

named Mithu Tulsi Chanrai Campus, after Mr

Chanrai's father.
Mr Chanrai is confident that one day the world
will be free of avoidable blindness. In his words,
“If you have the right intentions and strive for
excellence, others will join you, and if the essence
comes from your heart, the forces of nature will
be with you.”

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Your support makes it possible for all to see

Founding Organizations

Hyderabad Eye Institute Indo American Eye Care Society

Founding Trustees Founding Trustees Major Founding Donors
Dr Gullapalli N Rao, Chair Dr Gullapalli N Rao, Chair Mr L V Prasad, India
Mr A Ramesh Prasad Prof Brijen Gupta, Secretary Mrs G Pratibha Rao, India
Prof V Ramalingaswami Dr Y M Jay, Treasurer Mr A Ramesh Prasad, India
Dr Narla Tata Rao Dr H V Janardhan
Mr K P Prasad Dr Manuel del Cerro
Mr K Rama Rao Dr Jeff Harris

Founders Mr Nimmagadda Prasad Sun Pharma Laboratories Ltd, India N T P C Foundation, India
Foundation, India Microsoft, India SightLife, USA
Brien Holden Vision Institute, B H P Billiton, Australia Orbis International, USA
Australia Mr G Mallikharjun Rao/ G M R Aurobindo Pharma Limited, India Lions Club International
Varalakshmi Foundation, India Latter-day Saint Charities, USA
Operation Eyesight Universal, Miriam Hyman Memorial Trust, UK Foundation, USA
Canada Mrs Padma & Mr Subba Rao Dr Paul Dubord / Eyesight Carl Zeiss, Germany
Makineni, USA Swarna Bharat Trust, India
Dr Kallam Anji Reddy, India International, Canada Drs Saradapurna & Sriram Sonty,
Mr Kode Satyanarayana & family, Christoffel Blindenmission (CBM), Mrs Ramanamma & Dr Jasti V
Germany USA
India Rattaiah, USA Ms Shakti & Dr Dorairajan
Champalimaud Foundation, Mrs Soona and Mr Edward Brown, Mr Bijay Mandhani, India
France Mr Gangadhar Prasad & Mr Balasubramanian, India
Portugal Dr Padmaja & Dr G Chandra
Mr V C Janardan Rao, India Mr M H Dalmia/ OCL India Limited, Sashidhar Prasad Kilaru, USA
Bausch + Lomb, USA India Dr P R K Prasad, USA Sekhar, India
Mr Sudhakar Ravi & Mr Sreekanth Family of Mrs Meera & Mr L B Mrs Vijaya L Ramam, India
Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation, Drs Savitri Sharma & Taraprasad
Ravi, USA India Deshpande, India
Sightsavers International, UK Mrs Smita & Mr Sanjay Das, India
Lavelle Fund for the Blind, Inc, USA Dr Krupakar P Thadikonda, USA Mr Ravi Reddy, USA
Mr Ashok Devineni/ Nava Bharat Ms Jyoti & Mr Vikram M Thapar, Deshpande, USA Mr O Naresh Kumar, India
Mrs Meghna & Mr Vinay Mr B V R Mohan Reddy / Cyient
Ventures, India Karam Chand Thapar & sons,
Tej Kohli Foundation, UK India Deshpande, India Limited, India
Mr B R Barwale & Mr R B Barwale, Mr Kishore K Kothapalli, India Mrs Rewati & Dr Madan Maha, Mr K Varaprasad Reddy
Mr D N Budhrani/ Naraindas Mr Goparaju Varaprasada Rao &
India Morbai Budhrani Trust, India UK
Mrs Kokil & Mr S K Pathak, Dubai Savitri Waney Charitable Trust, UK Mr V Nannapaneni Choudhary/ Anuradha, India
Mr Satish Yeachareddy/ Y Jagdish M Chanrai
Seva Foundation, USA NATCO Pharma Limited, India
Mahabaleswarappa & Sons, India

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Patrons India Combat Blindness Foundation, Mr T R Prasad, India
Mrs & Mr Rao Remala, USA USA Mr Vellanki V Rao, India
Mr Seshanna Chennawar, India Mrs & Mr B D Sureka (Hartex Mr K Chandramouli Reddy, India
Ms Sudha Ghatrazu, India International Federation of Eye Mrs Amrit Sujan, India
Mr L D Jhaveri, Japan Rubber Pvt Ltd), India Banks, USA Mrs & Dr D Rama Naidu, India
Mrs Guna & Dr Somasekhara Rao Mr Madhu & Mr Mahesh Thakker Dr Kodali Varaprasad, India
Intraocular Care Pvt Ltd, India OneSight, USA
Mukkamala, USA (Kantilal & JaverbenThakker & I T C Ltd, India Veena Devi Singhania Trust, India
Mr Narayan Rao Patil, India Family), India K L N Prasad Trust, India J K Papers, Ltd, India
Mrs & Mr Prasad Potluri, India Mrs Rajashree & Mr Vikram Merck Foundation, USA Venkat Jasti, India
Dr Mullapudi Harishchandra Prasad, India Open Society Institute, USA Indian Oil Corporation, India
Mr Bob Ohlson, Canada Optometry Giving Sight, Australia
Prasad, India Alcon, USA Pharmacia, Sweden
Drs C Sudha & Nageswara Rao, Allergan, USA V S T Industries, India
Biocon Foundation, India World Diabetic Foundation,
India Canadian International
Mrs Uttara Devi & Mr B V Rao, Development Agency, Canada Denmark
Mr Adnan Mahmood, India
India
Mrs Preeti & Mr Ashok Kundalia Mr Raghu Mody / Hindustan Dr Parin Vakharia, in memory of late Rotary Club of Hyderabad, India
Composites LTD Olive Swoboda, India Rotary Club of Hamburg, Germany
/ Radiant Corporation Pvt Ltd, Rotary Club International
Dr K Uma Rama Rao, India Andhra Bank, India
Supporters Mrs Krishna & Mr Vinod K Neotia, Automotive Manufacturers Ltd, Foundation
Shiwlal Chandrakala Devi Sarda
Mrs & Mr Basharat Ali / Tameer India India
Consulting Associates, India Mrs Anju & Mr Mahender K Patodia, Bio Medix Optotechnik & Devices Charitable Trust, India
Seva Foundation
Mr K Bhanumurti, India India Pvt Ltd, India Sir Ratan Tata Trust, India
Mr Dilip B Desai, India Mr Rudra Appala Raju, India Fowler Westrup (India) Ltd, India Rajkumar Seksaria / Shri Kudilal
Mr Adi Godrej, India Mr K V J Subba Raju, India Fred Hollows Foundation, Australia
Mrs Sunita & Mr Praveen K Mrs Vatsala & Mr Vijay Sri Ram, Infosys Foundation, India Govindram Seksaria Foundation
International Eye Foundation, USA Thembey & Mhatre, India
Gottipalli, USA India (Summit Furnitures, India) Johnson & Johnson, India Tantia Group of Companies, India
Suven Trust, India Mr S Venkateswara Rao, India Merck, Sharp and Dohme, USA Titan Company Ltd
Mr Madanlal Harbahajanka, India Mrs Saroja & Dr A Narasing Rao, Microsoft / Charities Aid Foundation MBG Commodities Pvt ltd, India
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Mr Abid Ali Khan, India Mr R Raghu Rayala, India Novartis, India Foundation, India
Mrs Vinita & Mr Swaroop Kolluri, Mrs Madhu & Mr Sunil Saigal, India Ravindranath General Medical Volta Impex Pvt Ltd, India
Mrs Mani & Mr C S Sastry, India
USA Dr N Madhavi & Dr N V Sastry, India Associates Pvt Ltd, India
Dr Usha Kumar, India
Mr Willam Blair Kite, New Zealand
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Contributors Mr G A Choudary / Surya Charitable Dr Nilanjan Joardar, India Mr M V R Murthy / East Coast
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India Ms Andrea Stern & Mr Larry Mr & Mrs Chintan Mehta, India Justice T N C Rangarajan, India
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Mr S. V Saikumar Hulbert, Australia Mr Prakash Chandra Mohanty, India Mr Rustom D Ranji, India
Mr Kallianji Chaturbhuj, India Mr Shrinivasan Shesha Iyengar, India Mr Narendra Kumar Mor, India Mrs Bina & Dr T Gopal Rao, India
Mrs Rashmi & Dr Dinesh Chawla, Mrs Vijay Laxmi Inani & Jagdish Dr Y C Mruthyunjaya, USA Mrs Sujatha & Dr Y A Kesava Rao,
Drs Nalini & Ratnam V Mullapudi, USA
USA Chandra Inani, India
Ms P Rama Devi, India Mrs & Mr Shantilal Jain, India USA
Ms Gunnam Sarada Devi, India Mr Manav Jalan, India Mrs & Mr BVSSR Murthy, India
Mr Vijayakumar Chilakapati, USA Mrs Prema & Dr H V Janardhan, USA Dr Somasheila Murthy, India
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Dr Shalini Rao & Justice M N Rao, Drs Kamala & L N Taneja, India Corporations, India Maa Kuthari Charitable Trust, India
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Dr Shobha Aashish Boghani, India Mr Om Prakash Tibrewala, India Coromandel Fertilizers Ltd, India India
Mrs Uma Rao & Dr Ram Mohan Mrs Radha & Mr G G Vaidya, India Deepak Fertilizers & Chemicals, Mphasis Limited, India
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Charitable Trust), India Dr P V K S Varma, India De Heer, The Netherlands Micro Vision, India
Dr Palle Rama Rao, India Mr Devansh P Visarshini, India Despatel Land Developers Pvt Ltd, Milmet Laboratories Pvt Ltd, India
Prof Kakarla Subba Rao, India Mrs Sitamma & Mr Rattayya Misereor, Germany
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Mr Y Madanamohana Rao, India Dr Sangeeta Wagh, India Embee Corporation, India Oshiwara Land Dev Co Ltd, India
Mr K Damodar Reddy, India Mrs. Aarti and Mrs Siddarth Emerald Chemicals, India Parasakti Cement Industries Ltd,
Mrs D J Vyas, India E S P I Industries & Chemicals Pvt
Dr K Madhukar Reddy, India Velakacherla India
Mr K Pratap Reddy, India Mr Shyam Choudary, USA Ltd, India Pharm Aromatic Chemicals, India
Mr K Sudhakar Reddy, India Mrs Aruna Kumari & Dr Ram Eye Bank Association of India, India P K Business Enterprise Ltd, India
Drs Katherine & C S Reshmi, USA F D C, India Personnel Search Services Pvt Ltd,
Prof M Sakuntala, India Kumari, USA Fullerton India Credit Co Ltd, India
Mr Giridharilal Sanghi & Mr Bajrang Oshivara Land Dev Co Ltd, India Ganapathrai Tibrewala Trust, India India
Pershad Sanghi, India Dr Sheshi & Mr Ravinder Sharma, Gangabhishan Bhikulal Int Ltd, India Persistence Foundation, India
Dr Virender S Sangwan, India G N B Tech, USA Pinnamaneni Poly Clinic, India
Mrs Kanuri Santhamma, India USA Gunnam Subba Rao Trust, India Pinnamaneni Trivikrama Prasad
Dr Satish, India Mrs Ratna Tulasi & Dr B R Health Care Marketing Services, Rajashree Pinnamaneni
Ms G Saradha, India Polymer Technology Inc, USA
Ms Veeramachineni Sarojini, India Yelamanchili, USA India Radhabai Palnitkar Medical
Mr Abhay J Shah, India Drs Lyla & Ramchandar Rao Yerneni, Herdillia Chemicals, India
Mrs & Mr Pabba Shankaraiah, India Harmony Food Pvt Ltd, India Education Society, India
Drs Sashi & Ravinder Sharma, USA USA Humphrey Instruments, USA RSB Charitable Trust, India
Mrs & Mr Nissar Ahmed Siddiqui, The Davars & Unnavas Family, Indian Orthocane Surgicals Ltd, Ramakrishna Poddar Smaraknidhi,
India
Mr Katragadda Bhagat Singh, India Australia & India India India
Mrs & Dr Girvar Singh, USA Adani Enterprises Ltd, India Industhan Composites Limited, India Rampion Eyetech Pvt Ltd, India
Mr Sunil Kumar Singh, India Acer Engineering Pvt Ltd, India Jain Roadways, India Ravela Timbers, India
Ms Sasanala Bhavani Sirisha, India Alkaloids Corporation, India Joyalukkas Foundation, India Retina Associates Eye Foundation,
Mr D K Somani, India Amit Castings Pvt Ltd, India Kamala Dalmia Charity Trust, India
Mrs Kuchakulla Sowbhagya, India Asia Engineering Co, India Kapoor Charitable Foundation, USA India
Mr B Srinivasula Setty India Asharam Foundation, India Kathanji Chaturbhuj Sanatorium S R K Consultants, India
Mr Shilendra Swarup, India A S Chowdhari Nava Bharat S R L Diagnostics
Mr S Srinivasan, India Trust, India S R L Ltd
Mrs Lalitha & Mr V Venkata Foundation, India Kakatiya Cement Sugar & Industries, Sai Sri Printers, India
Subramanyam,India Balaji Trading Co, India Satyam Enterprises, India
Ms Chtturi Sujatha, India Bank of India, India India Shanta Biotech Pvt Ltd, India
Ms Vemulapalli Sarojini, India B C Mohanty & Sons Pvt Ltd, India Kedia Agrotech Pvt Ltd, India Siris Ltd, India
Bharat Biotech International Ltd, Mr Keshava Narayan Tilak Smt Indukuri Shakaramma (Indu
India Khan Bahadur Babukhan
Biomed Technologies, India Projects Ltd), India
C B R Forum, India Foundation, India Sri Aruna Auto Service Limited, India
Chittoda Investment and Trading Pvt Konan, Japan Sri Krishna Jewellery Mart, India
Ltd, India Lions Club of Hyderabad Majestic,
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India

Sri Ramdas Motor Transport, India Suha Devi Poddar Charitable Trust, Trigeo Technologies Pvt Ltd, India Youdan Marketing, India
Sri Rama Raju Charitable Trust, India India Tolaram Ratanlal Goenka Trust, India Universal Cine Traders Pvt Ldt, India
Sri Rameswar Ram Charities, India Union Bank of India, India Ms V Rajeswri
SICE India Private Limited, India Supra Enterprises, India Vaibhav Empire Pvt Ltd, India Zen Quality Assurance Pvt Ltd, India
State Bank of India, India Surya Enterprises, India Vijaydurga Beverages, India Zurich Financial Services, UK
Sudershan Drugs & International Sohani Charitable Trust Vijaya Nagar Bio Tech Ltd, India
Tirupati Traders, India Western Transport Agency, India
Ltd, India Tulsian Charitable Trust, India

Support During the Year

Adilabad Prema Isaac Chandra Sekhar G Padmanabhan T
Gayathri Kallakuri Satish Kumar G Chemtech Acids & Chemical Pvt. Parasakti Cement Industries Limited
Aurangabad Sri Nataraja Trust Pavuluru Ajitha
Ramesh Sharma Chhattisgarh Limited Penmetcha Sreedevi
Australia Alka Agrawal Chitra Kannabiran Pervar Gangadhar
Andrea Stern Cuttack Cyient Limited Prabhakar Rao IPP
Balasore L I Parija Deepali Yelisetty Prasad Media Corporation Pvt Ltd
Sangita Sahu Dubai Deloitte Tax Services India Private Prashant Garg
Ballary Sunil Kanal Pravin Kumar Tandlay
Aruna Gottipati Guntur Limited Premnandhini Satgunam
Bengaluru Agri Business Division - I ltd ITC Dhanji Lakhamshi Sawla Pridhvi Asset Reconstruction And
Govinda Rao VMH Divisional Railway Manager
Infosys Foundation Limited Ganapathiraju Bhanumathi Securitisation Company Ltd
Lakshmi Shinde Ratna Babu Hanumayamma L Prof D Balasubramanian
Titan Company Ltd Haryana HPB Charitable Trust R Suhasini
Ranganayaki Rao V Kamla Oleo Private Limited Infor (India) Pvt Ltd Raine Aluminium Private Limited
Bhopal Hyderabad Jashoda Jain Raja Narayanan
Bhatia NN Abhijit Pednekar Jayanthi V Rajya Lakshmi Sp
Bhubaneswar Aggidi Mallesh Jitender Sharma Rama Rao AV
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd Agile Security Force Private Limited K.M.Jain Rammohan Rao M
Subash Ch Jena(Blue Star Security) Ajit Pandurang Rangnekar Konda Venkata Nagaraju Rangarajan TNC
Vision Care Ananda Swarup V Koteswara Rao S S R Ravi Krishnamurthy
Vivekananda Uttamrao Warkad Anjaneyulu TSR Krishna Prema Kattirisetti Sai Life Sciences Limited
California Ansuya Kumar BV Sai Vara Prasad Tangirala BB
TOMS Shoes LLC Aravinda Krishna Ks Lalith Kumar Jain Sankaram Moram
Atmakuri Venkata Ramam Laurus Labs Private Limited Santhi Sri P
Chennai Bala Kishore Batchu Meenakshi Sundari A Seetharamaiah D
Aasim Ameer Manappat Bindu Homes Pvt Ltd Milind Neilkant Naik Shivaji Sisinthy
Appasamy Associates Boorgu Padma Mitesh Kulkarni Shobha Boghani
Butchaiah Gadde, Ph.D Mohd Javed Ali Sirisha Senthil
62 Chalapathi Rao Pv Murty VS Sriharsha S
Nannapaneni VC Srinivas Rao M
Narender Kumar Gupta Start Help Foundation
Nava Bharat Foundation/ State Bank of India

A.S.Chowdhari

Subba Rao J Mumbai Shrirang Vaze Grandhi Rajesh
Suhasini Ravipati Akhilesh Suresh Gupta Usha Nair Harmony Foods Private Limited
Sukla Mitra Arunabha Lahiri Vijay Munshi Hegde Sharat Shivaramaiah
Sunitha Kh Ashoka Alpha Advisers LLP/ Mr Raipur Jalagam Prasad
Sushila Harilal Shah Lala BK Janaki Ram A
Syed Basharath Ali Ramesh Mantri RAJAHMUNDRY K.S.N.Reddy
Synchrony International Services Pvt Hasnayan Foundations Mallidi Mangayamma Kankanalapalli Leelavathi
Indra Munshi Rangareddy Kayala Sura Reddy
Limited Kansal Krishan Gopal Mocherla Pradeep Kumar Kiran Kumar
Techwave Consulting India Pvt Ltd Kanthilal & Javeri Bhai Thakkar Rourkela Lotus Wireless Technoligies India
Valerie Jeanne Noronha Kasturi Krishnakumar Sukhmani Public Charitable Trust
Vatsala & Vijay Sriram Laxmish Acharya Sangareddy Pvt.Ltd
Veda Manchikanti Nikita Mehta Govind Rao Y N.V.R.Sagar
Vellanki Vijaya Kumari Pahlajani DB Singapore N.V.S.Murty
Vijaya L Ramam Rajendra Y Angle Milea Dan & Dominique Naga Bhushanam G
Vijaya Lakshmi Ramam Rashida Barma Srikakulam Pakki Balakrishna Patnaik
Vindhya Marketing Associates Reliance Foundation Madugula Venkata Rao Peri Suresh
Vipul Harilal Shah Satyam Enterprises Thrissur Raju DS
Virchow Laboratories Limited Seabird Resorts Private Limited Joyalukkas Foundation RVR Projects Pvt.Ltd
Vivekananda Health Centre Sethna Rustom Behram Joyalukkas India Private Limited Satyanarayana M
Vyjayanthi Srinivasan Shree Govindram Seksaria Charity USA Srikrishna V
We Believe Foundation Combat Blindness International Surya Kantham S
Zen Quality Assurance Pvt Ltd Trust Synergies Casting Limited
Kolkata Shri Kudilal Govindram Seksaria Foundation Tadeparthi Kameswari Padmavathi
Devyani Worah & Jayanti Sen Vijayawada V.R.C. Chowdary
Madanlal Patodia Charitable Trust Foundation Abburi Pullarao Varada Gokhale
Monimoy Ghosh Veena B Patel Tunuguntla Suryanarayana Velaga Narayana Rao
Salarpuria Jajodia & Co Zoeb Sutarwala Vishakhapatnam Venkata Satyavathi K
Sudhir Prakash New Delhi Annepu Krishna Murthy Venkatasurya Rao Kancharla
Surendra Munshi AT&T Global Business Services Ascend Green Homes Venkateswara Rao Rokkam
Topsel Marketing Pvt Ltd Dalmia Bharat Foundation Atchyuth R Gongada Virtue Foundation
Topsel Pvt Ltd Dalmia Group Holdings Attili Appala Raju Y.V.S.Sastry
Vijay Munshi Mona Jain Bathula Vijaya Lakshmi Yellapantula Srinivas
Krishna District Savitri And S L Kumar/ Sadbhavna Bijay Kumar Agrawal Vizianagaram
Kudaravalli Lakshmana Das Chimalapati Chinna Ganeshwara DVSAN Raju
Kurnool Trust Ganti Narasimaha Murthy
Mahaldar Moulali Odisha Rao Pothinindi Kanaka Durgamma
Vijaykanth G Gouri Prasanna Dash Duraiswamy B
Lucknow PRAKASAM Eswaramma T Charitable Trust
Renu Sinha Srinivasa Rao Dasari Fathima Kutty Kapil Sri S S Maharaj
Medchal Princeton Ganti Narasimha Murthy Warangal
Namala Srinivasa Rao Lakshmi Gudimella Keerthi Rajendra Prasad
Pune West Godavari
Jayant Lunawat Panduranga Vijaya Varma D
Konkar JS Satyanarayana Raju M
Marina Bijoy

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Boards of Management

Hyderabad Eye Institute Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation

Chairman Chairman
Gullapalli N Rao Ajit Rangnekar

Hyderabad Hyderabad

Members Secretary / Treasurer
Ramesh Prasad Gullapalli N Rao
Hyderabad
Hyderabad
Members
Sunil K Singh Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath
Lucknow
Bengaluru
B V R Mohan Reddy
Hyderabad Uday B Desai
Hyderabad
Anil Bhansali
Hyderabad V Raghunathan
Bengaluru
Evita Fernandez
Hyderabad Virander S Chauhan
New Delhi
Nirmal K Ganguly
New Delhi Rajendra Achyut Badwe
Mumbai
Ramakrishna Ramaswamy
New Delhi G Pratibha Rao
Hyderabad
Rajeev Nannapaneni
Hyderabad S Shivaji (Ex-Officio)
Hyderabad
G Pratibha Rao
Hyderabad

Sai Prasad
Chennai

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