International Journals :

• Rahini Rajendran, Dhandayuthapani Sudha, Subbulakshmi Chidambaram, Hemavathy Nagarajan,Umashankar Vetrivel and Jayamuruga Pandian Arunachalam, “Retinoschisis and Norrie disease: a missing link” , BMC Research Notes, 14(1), 1-7, 26 May 2021.


• Alam MS, Mukherjee B, Krishnakumar S, “Clinical profile and management outcomes of lacrimal drainage system malignancies”. Orbit. 2021 May 21:1-8.


• Nderitu P, do Rio JMN, Rasheed R, Raman R, Rajalakshmi R, Bergeles C, Sivaprasad S & SMART India Study Group. “Deep learning for gradability classification of handheld, non-mydriatic retinal images.” Sci Rep. 2021 May 4;11(1):9469


• Tatsuya Nakagawa, Naoki Okumura, Naoya Hanada, Prema Padmanabhan, Sailaja Elchuri, Amit Chatterjee, Narayanan Janakiraman, Gajanan Sathe, Vivek Ghose, Theofilos Tourtas, Ursula Schlötzer-Schrehardt, Friedrich E Kruse, Noriko Koizumi. “Proteomic analysis of TCF4 knock-out corneal endothelial cells derived from the patients with Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy.” Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. Jun 2021;62(8):827


• Iyer Mahalaxmi, Tiwari S, Renu K, Pasha MY, Pandit S, Singh B, Raj N, Krothapalli S, Kwak HJ, Balasubramanian V, Jang SB, G DK, Uttpal A, Narayanasamy A, Kinoshita M, Subramaniam Mohana Devi, Nachimuthu SK, Roy A, Valsala Gopalakrishnan A, Ramakrishnan P, Cho SG, Vellingiri B. “Environmental survival of SARS-CoV-2 - A solid waste perspective.” Environ Res. 2021 Jun.


• Frudd K, Sivaprasad S, Raman R, Krishnakumar S, Revathy YR, Turowski P, “Diagnostic circulating biomarkers to detect vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy: Potential screening tool of the future?” Acta Ophthalmol. E.pub 2021 Jul 16.


• Mahalaxmi I, Jayaramayya K, Venkatesan D, Subramaniam Mohana Devi, Renu K, Vijayakumar P, Narayanasamy A, Gopalakrishnan AV, Kumar NS, Sivaprakash P, Sambasiva Rao KRS, Vellingiri B. “Mucormycosis: An opportunistic pathogen during COVID-19.” Environ Res. Epub 2021 Jul 6.


• Bagewadi S, Parameswaran Sowmya, Krishnakumar S, Sethuraman S, Subramanian Anuradha, “Tissue engineering approaches towards the regeneration of biomimetic scaffolds for age-related macular degeneration”. A.J Mater Chem B. 2021 Aug 4;9(30):5935-5953.


• Swetha Rajasekaran, Jalal Siddiqui, Jessica Rakijas, Brandon Nicolay, Chenyu Lin, Eshan Khan, Rahi Patel, Robert Morris, Emanuel Wyler, Myriam Boukhali, Jayashree Balasubramanyam, R. Ranjith Kumar, Capucine Van Rechem, Christine Vogel, Sailaja V. Elchuri, Markus Landthaler, Benedikt Obermayer, Wilhelm Haas, Nicholas Dyson & Wayne Miles “Integrated multi-omics analysis of RB-loss identifies widespread cellular programming and synthetic weaknesses”. Commun Biol 4, 977 Aug 2021.


• Baranasic, Damir, Matthias Hörtenhuber, Piotr J. Balwierz, Tobias Zehnder, Abdul Kadir Mukarram, Chirag Nepal, Csilla Várnai, Yavor Hadzhiev, Ada Jimenez-Gonzalez, Nan Li, Joseph W Wragg, Fabio M D'Orazio, Noelia Díaz, Benjamín Hernández-Rodríguez, Zelin Chen, Marcus H. Stoiber, Michael J. Dong, Irene Stevens, Samuel E. Ross, Anne E. Eagle, Ryan Martin, Pelumi Obasaju, S. Rastegar, Alison C. McGarvey, Wolfgang Kopp, Emily Chambers, Dennis Wang, Hyejeong Kim, Rafael D. Acemel, Silvia Naranjo, Maciej Lapiński, Vanessa Chong, Sinnakaruppan Mathavan, Bernard Peers, Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Martin Vingron, Piero Carninci, Uwe Ohler, Scott Allen Lacadie, Shawn M. Burgess, Cecilia Winata, Freek van Eeden, Juan M. Vaquerizas, José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta, Daria Onichtchouk, Ben Brown, Ozren Bogdanović, Monte Westerfield, Fiona C. Wardle, Carsten O. Daub, Boris Lenhard and Ferenc Müller. “Integrated annotation and analysis of genomic features reveal new types of functional elements and large-scale epigenetic phenomena in the developing zebrafish.” Nature Genetics 10 August 2021


• Hemavathy Natarajan, Umashankar Vetrivel “Deciphering the structural and functional impact of missense mutations in Egr1-DNA interacting interface: an integrative computational approach”, J Biomol Struct Dyn . 2021 Aug 17;1-13.


• Srinivasan Sangeetha, Sobha Sivaprasad, Rajalakshmi R, Anjana RM, Malik RA, Kulothungan V, Raman Rajiv, Muna Bhende. “Retinal structure-function correlation in type 2 diabetes.” Eye (Lond). 2021 Aug 30.


• Mohana Devi S, Abishek Kumar B, Mahalaxmi I, Balachandar V. “Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy: Current approaches and future perspectives on Mesenchymal stem cell-mediated rescue.” Mitochondrion. 2021 Sep; 60:201-218.


• Hussain A, Gopalakrishnan A, Muthuvel B, Hussaindeen JR, Angayarkanni N, Sivaraman V, “Retraction notice to "Young adults with myopia have lower concentrations of neuromodulators-dopamine and melatonin in serum and tear" Exp. Eye Res. 2021 Oct;209:108795.


• S. Mohana Devi, Aswathy P Nair, I. Mahalaxmi, V. Balachandar. “Mitochondrial function and epigenetic outlook in Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON).” Neurology Perspectives. Volume1,Issue 4, Oct-Dec 20212021,220-232.


• Vignesh Menta, Shweta Agarwal, Ujjalkumar Subhash Das, Laxmi Moksha, Gurumurthy Srividya, Amrutha M Anandan, Bhaskar Srinivasan, Geetha Iyer, Thirumurthy Velpandian, Narayanasamy Angayarkanni, “Ocular surface sphingolipids associate with the refractory nature of vernal keratoconjunctivitis: newer insights in VKC pathogenesis”, Br J Ophthalmol.2021 Oct 20


• Agarwal M, S G, Iyer G, KrishnaKumar S, “Bilateral Ocular Rosai-Dorfman Disease Presenting as Diffuse Anterior Scleritis with Multiple Enlarging Epibulbar Masses.”Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2021 Oct 18:1-4.


• Ganesan S, Agarwal AAK, Subramanian K “A rare case of Panophthalmitis due to cobra bite” Eur J Ophthalmol. 2021 Oct 8.


• Mahalaxmi I, Subramaniam Mohana Devi, Gopalakrishnan AV, Vellingiri B.“Dysfunction in Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain Complex I, Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Activity, and Mutations in ND1 and ND4 Gene in Autism Spectrum Disorder Subjects from Tamil Nadu Population, India.” Mol Neurobiol. 2021 Oct;58(10):5303-5311.


• Meethal NSK, Mazumdar D, Morshchavka S, Robben J, van der Steen J, George R, Pel JJM. “A haploscope based binocular pupillometer system to quantify the dynamics of direct and consensual Pupillary Light Reflex” Sci Rep. 2021 Oct 26;11(1):21090.


• Khan R, Raman S, Karamcheti SKM, Srinivasan S, Sharma A, Surya J, Bhende M, Ramasamy K, Verma A, Raman R. “Comparison of Two Ultra-Widefield Cameras With High Image Resolution and Wider View for Identifying Diabetic Retinopathy Lesions.” Transl Vis Sci Technol. 2021 Oct 4;10(12):9.


• Ravi R, Kumaraswamy A, Chauhan P, Subramaniam Rajesh B. “Exogenous administration of hydrogen sulfide alleviates homocysteine induced inflammation in ARPE-19 cells.” Exp Eye Res. 2021 Nov;212:108759.


• Wenjie Liu, Sruthi Priya Mohan, Nareshkumar Ragavachetty Nagaraj, Shyam Sundar Jaganathan, Yi Wen, Sharada Ramasubramanyan, Joseph Irudayaraj, “Epigenetic alterations associated with dexamethasone sodium phosphate through DNMT and TET in RPE cells.” Mol Vis 2021 Nov 20;27:643-655.


• Alam S, Banerjee P, Krishnakumar S. “A rare case of congenital piloleiomyoma of the eyelid.” Orbit. 2021 Dec; 40(6):518-520.


• Srilekha Sundaramurthy, Selvakumar A, Dharani V, Soumittra N, Mani J, Thirumalai K, Periyasamy P, Mathavan S, Sripriya S. “Prevalence of primary mutations in Leber hereditary optic neuropathy: A five-year report from a tertiary eye care center in India.” Mol Vis. 2021 Dec 11;27:718-724.


• Ravi Ramya, Subramaniam Rajesh Bharathidevi, “Paraoxonase 2 protects against the CML mediated mitochondrial dysfunction through modulating JNK pathway in human retinal cells.” Biochim Biophys Acta (BBA) Gen Subj. Jan 2022.


• M Aloysius Dhivya, K N Sulochana, S R Bharathi Devi “High glucose-induced inflammation is inhibited by copper chelation via rescuing mitochondrial fusion protein 2 in retinal pigment epithelial cells.” Cell Signal. Epub 2022 Jan 6.


• Manohar Rebecca, Krishnamoorthy Sripriya, M Bharathselvi, B Shantha, Lingam Vijaya, Narayanasamy Angayarkanni. “Increased Desmosine in the lens capsules is associated with augmented elastin turnover in Pseudoexfoliation syndrome”, Exp Eye Res. 2022 Feb.


• Srinivasan S, Sivaprasad S, Munusamy G, Rajalakshmi R, Anjana RM, Malik RA, Kulothungan V, Raman R, Bhende M. “Zone-wise examination of optical coherence tomography features and their correspondence to multifocal electroretinography in eyes with nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy.” Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2022 Mar;260(3):827-837.


• Rajesh K Joshi, Sandeep R Pai, Hemavathy Nagarajan, Umashankar Vetrivel, “Identification of potentially bioactive compounds from Blumea lacera essential oil by gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy and molecular docking studies for targeting inflammatory bowel disease.” Nat Prod Res. 2022 Jan 10;1-5.

National Journals:

• Koka K, Singh P, Nisar SP, Alam MS, Backiavathy V, Scott JX, Krishnakumar S, Mukherjee B. “Role of pre-operative percutaneous embolization in orbital alveolar soft part sarcoma - An experience from a tertiary eye-care center.” Indian J Ophthalmol. 2021 Oct;69(10):2796-2801.


• Mohan S, Chawla G, Surya J, Raman R. “Intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor with and without topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory in centre-involving diabetic macular edema.” Indian J Ophthalmol. 2021 Nov;69(11):3279-3282.


• Srinivasan S, Sivaprasad S, Rajalakshmi R, Anjana RM, Malik RA, Kulothungan V, Raman R, Bhende M. “Assessment of optical coherence tomography angiography and multifocal electroretinography in eyes with and without nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy.” Indian J Ophthalmol. 2021 Nov;69(11):3235-3240.


• Dhanashree Ratra, Daleena Dalan, Nandini Prakash, Kuppan Kaviarasan, Sadagopan Thanikachalam, Undurti N Das, Narayansamy Angayarkanni, “Quantitative analysis of retinal microvascular changes in prediabetic and diabetic patients”. Indian J Opthalmol 2021 Nov;69(11):3226-3234.


• Banerjee P, Koka K, Alam MS, Subramanian N, Biswas J, Krishnakumar S, Mukherjee B, “The spectrum and clinicopathological correlation of eyelid lesions: Twenty years' experience at a tertiary eye care center in South India”, Indian J Ophthalmol. 2021 Dec.


• Alam MS, Banerjee P, Krishnakumar S. “The effect of direct cell injury inflicted by cryotherapy on eyelid sebaceous gland carcinoma cells: An ex-vivo experimental study.” Indian J Ophthalmol. 2022 Feb;70(2):630-633.

Book Chapters :

• Green synthesis of nanomaterials for Eye Cancer research with focus on Retinoblastoma, Sailaja V Elchuri Janakiraman Narayanan, Strategies toward Green Deal Implementation – Water and Raw Materials, Energią PAN – Publishing House ISBN: 978-83-961960-2-6


• Natarajan S.N., Gnanasekaran H., Kandeeban S., Srilekha S., Sripriya S. (2022). An Overview on the Genetic Etiology, Testing, and Therapeutic Options for Retinitis Pigmentosa. In: Nema H.V., Nema N. (eds) Genetics of Ocular Diseases. Springer, Singapore

Accepted for the Publication:

• M.Bharathselvi, K.Coral, K.N.Sulochana “Simultaneous determination of homocysteine, cysteine, glycine, glutamic acid, methionine, and taurine in human plasma by using reverse phase –high performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detector.” Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Research.


• Badrinarayanan L, Rishi P, George R, Isaac N, Rishi E; Sankara Nethralya Vitreo-Retinal group (SNVR). Incidence, risk factors, treatment and outcome of ocular hypertension following intravitreal steroid injections: A comparative study. Ophthalmologica.

International Journals :

• Ramya Ravi, Nareshkumar Ragavachetty Nagaraj, Bharathi Devi Subramaniam Rajesh. “Effect of advanced glycation end product on paraoxonase 2 expression: Its impact on endoplasmic reticulum stress and inflammation in HUVECs”. Life Science, Apr 1 2020.


• Aishwarya Murali, Subramanian Krishnakumar, Anuradha Subramanian, Sowmya Parameswaran. “Bruch’s membrane pathology: A mechanistic perspective” Eur J Ophthalmol, April 28, 2020.


• Sivaprasad S, Raman R, Conroy D, Mohan 5th, Wittenberg R, Rajalakshmi R, Majeed A, Krishnakumar S, Prevost T, Parameswaran S, Turowski P, Maheswari U, Khobragade R, Netuveli G, Sadanandan R, Greenwood J, Ramasamy K, Rao M, Bergeles C, Das. “The ORNATE India Project: United Kingdom- India Research Collaboration to tackle visual impairment due to diabetic retinopathy” Eye (Lond) 34, 1279-1286 (2020), 12th May 2020.


• Vimalin Jeyalatha Mani, Durgadevi Parthasarathy, Prema Padmanabhan, Niveditha Narayanan, Meena Lakshmipathy, Pachayappan SK, Jayavel P, K Lily Therese, HN Madhavan, Malathi Jambulingam. “Therapeutic Effect of Corneal Crosslinking on Fungal Keratitis: Efficacy of Corneal Collagen Crosslinking as an Adjuvant Therapy for Fungal Keratitis in a Tertiary Eye Hospital in South India”. Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2020 May 13.


• Amit Chatterjee, Hemavathy Nagarajan, Prema Padmanabhan, Umashankar Vetrivel, Kulandhai Lily Therese, and Narayanan Janakiraman. “Understanding the Uptake Mechanism and Interaction Potential of the Designed Peptide and Preparation of Composite Fiber Matrix for Fungal Keratitis”. ACS Omega. 2020 May 21, 12090-12102.


• Ramalingam Mani, P. S. Shobha, Saravanan Thilagavathi, Padmanabhan Prema, Natarajan Viswanathan, Ratra Vineet, Ratra Dhanashree, Narayanasamy AngayarkanniI*D. “Altered mucins and aquaporins indicate dry eye outcome in patients undergoing Vitreoretinal surgery”, PLOS ONE May 21, 2020.


• M Aloysius Dhivya, S Aberami, S Nikhala Shree, J Biswas, Wenjie Liu, Joseph Irudayaraj, K N Sulochana, Coral Karunakaran, S R Bharathi Devi. “Copper mediates mitochondrial biogenesis in Retinal pigment epithelial cells”. BBA- Molecular Basis of Disease (ELS), May 23, 2020.


• Dhanashree Ratra, Rajesh Nagarajan, Daleena Dalan, Nandini Prakash, Kaviarasan Kuppan, Sadagopan Thanikachalam, Undurti Das, Angayarkanni Narayansamy. “Early structural and functional neurovascular changes in the retina in the prediabetic stage”. Eye (Lond), May 28,2020.


• Rajeswari Raguraman, Sowmya Parameswaran , Jagat Rakesh Kanwar , Madavan Vasudevan, Srujana Chitipothu, Rupinder Kaur Kanwar , Subramanian Krishnakumar. “Gene expression profiling of tumor stroma interactions in retinoblastoma” Experimental Eye Research. 2020 Jun 22.


• Bhuvaneswari Ganesan, Sowmya Parameswaran, Ashwani Sharma, Subramanian Krishnakumar. “Clinical relevance of B7H3 expression in retinoblastoma” Nature Research Scientific Reports, June 2020.


• Shweta Agarwal, Bhaskar Srinivasan, Narayanan Janakiraman, Lily K. Therese, Krishnakumar S, Nilay Patel, Thenmozhi V and Geetha Iyer. “Role of topical ethanol in the treatment of Pythium insidiosum keratitis - A Proof of Concept”, Cornea. 2020 Sep 1; 39(9):1102-7 , 11 June 2020


• Lily Therese Kulandai, Dhanurekha Lakshmipathy, and Janaki Sargunam. “Novel Duplex Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Rapid Detection of Pythium insidiosum Directly from Corneal Specimens of Patients with Ocular Pythiosis”. Cornea , 2020 Jun; 39(6):775-778.


• Muthukumaran, S, Sulochana, K. N, & Umashankar, V. “Structure based design of inhibitory peptides targeting ornithine decarboxylase dimeric interface and in vitro validation in human retinoblastoma Y79 cells”. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 1-15, 22 June 2020.


• Agarwal M, Patnaik G, Sanghvi K, Anand AR, Janani MK, Biswas J. “Clinicopathological, Microbiological and Polymerase Chain Reaction Study in a Case of Nocardia Scleritis” Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2020 Jul 7, 1-5.


• Jonnalagadda, B., Arockiasamy, S., Vetrivel, U. “In silico docking of phytocompounds to identify potent inhibitors of signaling pathways involved in prostate cancer”. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 1-27, 19 July 2020


• Nagarajan, H., Lakshmi, P. D., & Vetrivel, U. “Deciphering potential inhibitors targeting THI4 of Fusarium solani sp. to combat fungal keratitis: An integrative computational approach”. Computational Biology and Chemistry, 88, 107350, 2 Aug 2020.


• Lakshmi Badrinarayanan, Srujana Chitipothu, Sharada Ramasubramanyan, Sarangapani Sripriya, Pukhraj Rishi, Ekta Rishi, Ronnie George, Baddireddi Subhadra Lakshmi, and Sailaja V. Elchuri, “Assessment of single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with steroid-induced ocular hypertension” Int J Ophthalmol 2020; 13(8): 1294–1305. Aug 18, 2020.


• Hemanth Ravishankar, Abubakar Siddiq Mangani, Grace Lydia Phoebe Moses, Sathya Priyadarshini Mani, Sowmya Parameswaran , Vikas Khetan , Suganeswari Ganesan , Subramanian Krishnakumar “Serum exosomal miRNA as biomarkers for Retinoblastoma”, Experimental Eye Research. August 11, 2020.


• Parveen Sen, Puja Maitra, Srikrupa Natarajan, Srivatsan Sripriya, Sinnakaruppan Mathavan, Muna Bhende & Pradeep T Manchegowda. “CERKL mutation causing retinitis pigmentosa (RP) in Indian population – a genotype and phenotype correlation study”. Ophthalmic Genetics, 31 Aug 2020.


• Alam MS, Chandran VA, Krishnakumar S “Primary apocrine adenocarcinoma of the lacrimal sac: an extremely rare variant of lacrimal sac neoplasm” Orbit. 2020 September 23:1-4.


• Srilekha Sundaramurthy, Ambika SelvaKumar, Jared Ching, Vidhya Dharani, Sripriya Sarangapani, Patrick Yu-Wai-Man. “Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy – New Insights and Old Challenges”. Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, 23 Oct 2020.


• Amit, C, Padmanabhan, P. & Narayanan, J. “Deciphering the mechanoresponsive role of β-catenin in keratoconus epithelium”. Scientific Reports 10, 21382 (2020), 19 Oct 2020.


• Ravishankar H, Mangani AS, Phoebe Moses GL, Mani SP, Parameswaran S, Khetan V, Ganesan S, Krishnakumar S. “Serum exosomal miRNA as biomarkers for Retinoblastoma” Experimental Eye Research 2020 Oct.


• Vijay V, Alam MS, Subramanian N, Krishnakumar S, Biswas J, Mukherjee B. “Periocular Basal Cell Carcinoma: 20-Years Experience at a Tertiary Eye Care Center of South India”. Oman Journal of Ophthalmology 2020 November 2; 13(3):129-135.


• Ambily Vincent, Viswanathan Natarajan, Vikas Khetan, Subramanian Krishnakumar, Sowmya Parameswaran. “Heterozygous retinoblastoma gene mutation compromises in vitro osteogenesis of adipose mesenchymal stem cells - a temporal gene expression study" Experimental Cell Research. 2020 Nov 1;396(1):112263.


• Sreenivasan J, Rishi P, Das K, Krishnakumar S, Biswas J."Retinal Pigment Epithelium Adenoma and Adenocarcinoma". Ocular Oncology & Pathology, Dec 2020;7 (2):121-132. Agarwal M, Dhiman R, Subramanian Krishnakumar “Atypical Case of Bilateral Chandler Syndrome With Recurrent Band Keratopathy” Cornea. 2020 December 2.


• Mohana Devi Subramaniam, Mahalaxmi Iyer, Aswathy P. Nair, Dhivya Venkatesan, Sinnakaruppan Mathavan, Nimmisha Eruppakotte, Soumya Kizhakkillach, Manoj kumar Chandran, Ayan Roy, Abilash Valsala Gopalakrishnan, Balachandar Vellingiri. “Oxidative stress and mitochondrial transfer: A new dimension towards ocular diseases”, Genes & Diseases 5 Dec 2020.


• Hemavathy Nagarajan, Umashankar Vetrivel. “Membrane dynamics simulation and virtual screening reveals potential dual natural inhibitors of endothelin receptors for targeting glaucomatous condition”. Life Sciences, 269, 119082, 19 Jan 2021.


• Deepa PR, Nalini V, Surianarayanan M, Krishnakumar S. “Towards safer non-volatile tissue fixatives: Evaluation of choline-based ionic liquids for fixing ocular tissues. Ecotoxicology & Environmental Safety, 2021 Feb 20.


• Srikrupa N Natarajan, Sarangapani Sripriya, Pavithra Suriyanarayanan, Parveen Sen, Ravi Gupta, and Sinnakaruppan Mathavan. “Whole exome sequencing identifies two novel ALMS1 mutations in Indian patients with Leber congenital Amaurosis”, Human Genome Variations, 29 March 2021.


• Chatterjee Amit, Gajanan Sathe, Abinaya Shunmugam, Prasanna Kumar Athyala, Vivek Ghose, Srujana Chitipothu, Narayanan Janakiraman, Ramaprabhu Sundara, and Sailaja V. Elchuri. "Graphitic Carbon Nitride Causes Widespread Global Molecular Changes in Epithelial and Fibroblast Cells”. ACS omega, 23 Mar 2021.


• Samdani Ansar & Umashankar Vetrivel. “Structure-based design of small molecule and peptide inhibitors for selective targeting of ROCK1: an integrative computational approach” Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 2021 March 10.


• Narasimhan I, Murali A, Subramanian Krishnakumar, Ramalingam S, Parameswaran S. “Autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa with toxic gain of function: Mechanisms and therapeutics” European Journal of Ophthalmology. 2021 March 31(2):304-320. Epub 2020 Sep 22


• Sandeep Bose, Amit Chatterjee, Shantha Kumar Jenifer, Biswajit Mondal, Pillalamarri Srikrishnarka, Debasmita Ghosh, Angshuman Ray Chowdhuri, M. P. Kannan, Sailaja V. Elchuri, Thalappil Pradeep “Molecular Materials through Microdroplets: Synthesis of Protein- Protected Luminescent Clusters of Noble Metals” ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Mar 2021, 9, 12, 4554–4563.

National Journals:

• Therese KL, Lakshmipathy M, Lakshmipathy D. “First report of Mortierella wolfii causing fungal keratitis from a tertiary eye hospital in India”, Indian J Ophthalmol. 2020 Sep 23. Mahesh M, Sudharshan S, Khetan V, Janani MK, Krishnakumar S. “Polymerase chain reaction-proven tuberculous anterior segment mass mimicking juvenile xanthogranuloma in a child”. Indian Journal of Ophthalmology 2020 September;68(9):2033-2035.


• Sivapriya Sivagurunathan, Lakshmi Dhevi N Selvan , Aafaque Ahmad Khan, Sowmya Parameswaran, Harsha Bhattacharjee, Krishna Gogoi, Harsha Gowda, T. S. Keshava Prasad, Akhilesh Pandey, Ashok Kumar S, Pukhraj Rishi, Ekta Rishi, Dhanashree Ratra, Muna Bhende, Narayanan Janakiraman, Jyotirmay Biswas, Subramanian Krishnakumar. “Proteomics‑based approach for differentiation of age‑related macular degeneration sub‑types” Indian J Ophthalmol. 69(3):647-654. doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_470_20, 2021 Feb 17;.


• Ramya Ravi, Karunkaran Coral, Bharathi Devi Subramaniam Rajesh. “RAGE silencing deters CML-AGE induced inflammation and TLR4 expression in endothelial cells”, Experimental Eye Research , DOI:10.1016/j.exer.2021.108519. 25 Feb 2021

Accepted for the Publication:

• M Aloysius Dhivya, K N Sulochana, S R Bharathi Devi. “Copper modulates long pentraxin 3 expression in retinal pigment epithelial cells” Cellular Signalling”.


• Ramya Ravi, Anand Kumaraswamy, Preeti Chauhan, Subramaniam Rajesh Bharathidevi. “Exogenous administration of hydrogen sulphide alleviates homocysteine induced inflammation in ARPE-19 cells” Experimental Eye Research


• Menta Vignesh, Agarwal Shweta , Das S Ujjwalkumar, Lakshmi Moksha, Gurumurthy Srividya , Anandan M Amrutha, Srinivasan Bhaskar, Iyer Geetha, Thirumurthy Velpandian, Narayanasamy Angayarkanni . “Ocular surface sphingolipids associate with the refractory nature of Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis: Newer insights in VKC pathogenesis BJO


• Manohar Rebecca, Krishnamoorthy Sripriya Shantha B, Lingam Vijaya Bharathselvi M Narayanasamy Angayarkanni “Increased desmosine in the lens capsules is associated with augmented elastin turnover in pseudoexfoliation syndrome" British Journal of Ophthalmology.

International Journals :

• Amit, Chatterjee, Prema Padmanabhan, and Janakiraman Narayanan. "Deciphering the mechanoresponsive role of β-catenin in Keratoconus epithelium" BioRxiv April 2019 603738


• Samdani Ansar, Anupriya Sadhasivam, Umashankar Vetrivel, “PocketPipe: A computational pipeline for integrated Pocketome prediction and comparison” Bioinformation 15(4): 295-298 April 2019


• Rajasekaran, S., Nagarajha Selvan, L.D., Dotts, K., Kumar, R., Rishi, P., Khetan, V., Bisht, M., Sivaraman, K., Krishnakumar, S., Sahoo, D. and Campbell, M.J., 2019. “Non-coding and coding transcriptional profiles are significantly altered in pediatric retinoblastoma tumors” Frontiers in oncology, April 9, p.221


• Karthikka Palanisamy, Coral Karunakaran, Rajiv Raman, Subbulakshmi Chidambaram. “Optimization of an in vitro bilayer model for studying the functional interplay between human primary retinal pigment epithelial and choroidalendothelial cells isolated from donor eyes”. BMC Res Notes, May, 2019.


• Kannadasan Anand Babu, Parveen Sen, Narayanasamy Angayarkanni. “Oxidized LDL, homocysteine, homocysteine thiolactone and advanced glycation end products act as pro-oxidant metabolites inducing cytokine release, macrophage infiltration and pro-angiogenic effect in ARPE-19 cells” PlosOne, May, 2019


• John, M. Sivashanmugam, S.K. Natarajan, V. Umashankar, “Computational modeling of novel inhibitory peptides targeting proteoglycan like region of carbonic anhydrase IX and in vitro validation in HeLa cells” Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics May 2019 1–12.


• Kulandhai LT, Bhagavathi H, Krishnan S, Krishnan K, Balasubramaniyam M, Madhavan HN. “Seroprevalence of Anti-HIV-1, Anti-HIV-2, Hepatitis B Surface Antigen, and Anti-HCV in Eye Donors in a Tertiary Eye Hospital, Chennai, India, in the Past 13 years (2005–2017)” Cornea. 2019 June 1; 38 (6):737-41.


• John S, Srinivasan S, Raman R, Ram K, Sivaprakasam M. “Validation of a Customized Algorithm for the Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy from Single- Field Fundus Photographs in a Tertiary Eye Care Hospital” Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019 Aug 21;264:1504-1505.


• Ansar S, Vetrivel U. “PepVis: An integrated peptide virtual screening pipeline for ensemble and flexible docking protocols”. Chemical Biology and Drug Designing. Aug 2019.


• Anupriya Sadhasivam, Hemavathy Nagarajan & Vetrivel Umashankar. “Structure-based drug target prioritization and rational drug design for targeting Chlamydia trachomatis eye infections” Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics 2019 August 5:1-18.


• Kuppan K, Mohanlal J, Mohammad AM, Babu KA, Sen P, Undurti ND, Natarajan V, Narayanasamy Angayarkanni. “Elevated Serum OxLDL is associated with progression of type 2 Diabetes Mellitus to Diabetic Retinopathy” Exp Eye Res. Sep 2019


• Vijay Raja, Soniya Charles, Mohankumar Ramasamy, Luxitaa Goenkad, M. Kamatchi, Melvin George, Jesu Arockiaraj, VE Dhandapani, Angayarkanni Narayanasamy, Kanchana Mala. “Cell cycle arrest in peripheral blood mononuclear cells: A non-invasive method for diagnosis of coronary artery disease” Elsevier Process Biochemistry Sep 2019.


• Aberami S, Nikhalashree S, Bharathselvi M, Biswas J, Sulochana KN, Coral K. “Elemental concentrations in Choroid-RPE and retina of human eyes with agerelated macular degeneration”. Exp Eye Res, Sep 2019.


• Nikhalashree S, George R, Shantha B, Lingam V, Vidya W, Panday M, Sulochana KN, Coral K. “Detection of Proteins Associated with Extracellular Matrix Regulation in the Aqueous Humour of Patients with Primary Glaucoma” Curr Eye Res. 2019 Sep;44(9):1018-1025.


• Gopakumar V, Agarwal S, Srinivasan B, Krishnakumar S, Krishnan UM, Iyer G. ”Clinical Outcome of Autologous Cultivated Oral Mucosal Epithelial Transplantation in Ocular Surface Reconstruction” Cornea 2019 Oct;38(10):1273-1279


• Sampath NikhalaShree, Gayathree Karthikkeyan, Ronnie George, BalekudaruShantha, Lingam Vijaya, Vineet Ratra, Konerirajapuram Natarajan Sulochana, Karunakaran Coral. “Lowered Decorin With Aberrant Extracellular Matrix Remodeling in Aqueous Humor and Tenon's Tissue From Primary Glaucoma Patients” Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, Nov, 2019.


• Pathak A, Chatterjee N, Sinha S. “Developmental trajectory of Caenorhabditis elegans nervous system governs its structural organization” PLoS Comput Biol. 2020 Jan 2;16(1):e1007602.


• Nagarajan, H., Narayanaswamy S., & Vetrivel, U. “Mutational Landscape screening of Methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase to predict Homocystinuria associated variants: an integrative computational approach” Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis, Epub Jan 2020.,111687.


• S. Mohana Devi, I. Mahalaxmi, J. Kaavya , V. Chinnkulandhai, V. Balachandar. “Does epigenetics have a role in age related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy?” Genes & Diseases. Jan 2020.


• Subramaniam Mohana Devi, Iyer Mahalaxmi, Nair P. Aswathy, Venkatesan Dhivya, Vellingiri Balachandar. “Does retina play a role in Parkinson’s Disease?” Acta Neurologica Belgica. 21 Jan 2020, 120(2):257- 265.


• Ravishankar H, Mangani AS, Shankar MB, Joshi M, Devasena T, Parameswaran S, Subramaniam K “Characterization of NCC-RbC-51, an RB cell line isolated from a metastatic site” Histochem Cell Biol. 2020 Feb;153(2):101-109.


• Chatterjee Amit, Prema Padmanabhan, Sailaja V Elchuri, Janakiraman Narayanan. “Probing the effect of matrix stiffness in endocytic signalling pathway of corneal epithelium”. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 19 Feb 2020, 525(2):280-285.


• Jayaramayya K, Iyer M, Venkatesan D, Balasubramanian V, Narayanasamy A, Subramaniam MD, Cho SG, Vellingiri B. “Unraveling correlative roles of dopamine transporter (DAT) and Parkin in Parkinson's disease (PD) - A road to discovery?”, Brain Res Bull. 2020 Feb; 157:169-179. Epub 2020 Feb 6.


• Alam MS, Vijay V, Barh A, Subramanian K. “Plasma cell granuloma of the conjunctiva in a young female” Orbit. 2020 Mar 1:1-4.


• Arun John, Umashankar Vetrivel, Muthukumaran Sivashanmugam, Sulochana Konerirajapuram Natarajan. “Microsecond Simulation of the Proteoglycan-like Region of Carbonic Anhydrase IX and Design of Chemical Inhibitors Targeting pH Homeostasis in Cancer Cells” ACS Omega. 2020 Mar 3; 5(8): 4270–4281.


• Iyer G, Srinivasan B, Agarwal S, Subramanian K. “Ectopic sebaceous glands of Gibsan in eyelid margin- A novel manifestation in Stevens Johnson Syndrome & proposed nomenclature based on an observational case series” Ocul Surf. Epub 2020 Mar 16: S1542-0124(20) 30056-2.


• Koh JEW, Raghavendra U, Gudigar A, Ping OC, Molinari F, Mishra S, Mathavan S, Raman R, Acharya UR. “A novel hybrid approach for automated detection of retinal detachment using ultrasound images”. Computers in Biology and Medicine, Mar 2020, 120: 103704-715.


• Alagappan LP, Koh JEW, V J, Ramesh A, Bhende M, Raman R, Acharya UR, Mathavan S. “Development of an automated system for the detection of genotype in polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy using retinal image phenotype” Comput Methods Programs Biomed. Epub 2020 Mar 19.


• Ravindran, S.J., Jenifer, S.K., Balasubramanyam, J., Jana, S.K., Krishnakumar, S., Elchuri, S., Philip, L. and Pradeep, T. “Arsenic Toxicity: Carbonate’s Counteraction Revealed” ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Mar 2020 8(13), pp.5067-5075


• Chen Y, Sharma T, Li X, Song Y, Chang Q, Lin R, Egger A, Foo A, Gekkieva M, Lai TYY. “Ranibizumab Versus Verteporfin Photodynamic Therapy in Asian Patients with Myopic Choroidal Neovascularization: Brilliance, a 12- Month, Randomized, Double-Masked Study Retina. 2019 Oct;39(10):1985- 1994.


• Vidhya Srinivasan, Selvi Radhakrishnan, Narayanasamy Angayarkanni, K.N.Sulochana. “Antidiabetic effect of free amino acids supplementation in human visceral adipocytes through adiponectin-dependent mechanism” Indian J Med Res 2019 IJMR _1782_16.


• Aditya Maitray, Ekta Rishi, Pukhraj Rishi, Lingam Gopal, Pramod Bhende, Rupak Ray, Kuzhanthai Lily Therese. “Endogenous endophthalmitis in children and adolescents: Case series and literature review” Indian J Ophthalmol. 2019 Jun;67(6):795-800..


• Alam MS, Tongbram A, Krishnakumar S, Mukherjee B. “Ciliochoroidal melanoma presenting as bleeding anterior staphyloma: Report of a case and review of literature” Indian J Ophthalmol. 2019 Jul;67(7):1162-1163.


• Subramaniam Rajesh Bharathi Devi, Karunakaran Coral, Karthikeyan Gayathree, Muthuvel Bharathselvi, Shanmuganathan Sivasankar, Jyotirmoy Biswas, Pukhraj Rishi, Sundaram Natarajan, Sengamedu Srinivasa Badrinath, Narayanasamy Angayarkanni. “Case report on two diabetic donor eyes with no retinopathy: Clinicopathological and molecular studies” Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, September 2019.


• Dalan D, Nandini P, Angayarkanni N, Kaviarasan K, Thanikachalam S, Das UN, Ratra D. “Interchangeability of retinal perfusion indices in different-sized angiocubes: An optical coherence tomography angiography study in diabetic retinopathy” Indian J Ophthalmol. 2020 Mar;68(3):484-489.

Accepted for the publication: :

• Balachandar Vellingiri, Kaavya Jayaramayya, Mahalaxmi Iyer, Arul Narayanasamy, Vivekanandhan Govindasamy, Bupesh Giridharan, Singaravelu Ganesan, Anila Venugopal, Dhivya Venkatesan, Harsha Ganesan, Kamarajan Rajagopalan, Pattanathu K.S.M. Rahman, Ssang-Goo Cho, Nachimuthu Senthil Kumar, Mohana Devi Subramaniam. “COVID-19: A promising cure for the global panic” Science of the Total Environment.


• Agarwal, Shweta, Bhaskar Srinivasan, Narayanan Janakiraman, Lily K. Therese, S. KrishnaKumar, Nilay Patel, V. Thenmozhi, and Geetha Iyer. "Role of Topical Ethanol in the Treatment of Pythium insidiosum Keratitis—A Proof of Concept." Cornea


• Ramya Ravi, Nareshkumar Ragavachetty Nagaraj, Bharathi Devi Subramaniam Rajesh “Effect of advanced glycation end product on paraoxonase 2 expression: Its impact on endoplasmic reticulum stress and inflammation in HUVECs” Life Science.


• Koka K, Alam MS, Subramanian N, Subramanian Krishnakumar, Biswas J, Mukherjee B. “Clinical spectrum and management outcomes of Langerhans cell histiocytosis of the orbit” Indian J Ophthalmol.


• Narasimhan S, Joshi M, Parameswaran S, Rishi P, Khetan V, Ganesan S, Biswas J, Sundaram N, Sreenivasan J, Verma S, Krishnamurthy V, Subramanian Krishnakumar “MYD88 L265P mutation in intraocular lymphoma: A potential diagnostic marker” Indian J Ophthalmol.


• Sivaprasad S, Raman R, Conroy D, Mohan 5th, Wittenberg R, Rajalakshmi R, Majeed A, Krishnakumar S, Prevost T, Parameswaran S, Turowski P, Maheswari U, Khobragade R, Netuveli G, Sadanandan R, Greenwood J, Ramasamy K, Rao M, Bergeles C, Das T ORNATE India Project Group. “The ORNATE India Project: United Kingdom-India Research Collaboration to tackle visual impairment due to diabetic retinopathy”. Eye (Lond).

International Journals :

• Vidhya S, Ramya R, Coral K, Sulochana KN, Bharathidevi SR. “Effect of free amino acids on bovine retinal pericytes”. Exp Eye Res. 2018 May 9.


• Dutta Majumder P, Therese KL, Mukherjee M, Gopal L, Biswas J. “Diagnostic Challenge with Nocardia Subretinal Abscess: A Case Report from Tuberculosis-Endemic Region”. Ocular immunology and inflammation. 2018 May 10:1-4.


• Kalpana Babu, Bhagya Sudheer and S.Krishna Kumar. “Bilateral Conjunctival Granulomas in a Young lady with Hypereosinophilic Syndrome – A case report”. Ocular Immunology and Inflammation. 17 May 2018:1-3.


• BaoJian Fan, Xueli Chen, Nisha Sondhi, P. Ferdinamarie Sharmila, Nagasamy Soumittra, Sarangapani Sripriya, Srinivasan Sacikala, Rashima Asokan, David S. Friedman, Louis R. Pasquale, X. Raymond Gao, Lingam Vijaya, Jessica Cooke Bailey, Veronique Vitart, Stuart MacGregor, Christopher J. Hammond, ChieaChuenKhor, Jonathan L. Haines, Ronnie George, and Janey L. Wiggs for the Mexican American Glaucoma Genetic Study; International Glaucoma Genetics Consortium; and NEIGHBORHOOD Consortium. “Family-Based Genome-Wide Association Study of South Indian Pedigrees Supports WNT7B as a Central Corneal Thickness Locus”. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2018 May 1;59(6):2495- 2502.


• Sudha D, Neriyanuri S, Sachidanandam R, Natarajan SN, Gandra M, TharigopalaA,Sivashanmugam M, Alameen M, Vetrivel U, Gopal L, Khetan V, Raman R, SenP,Chidambaram S, Arunachalam JP. “Understanding variable disease severity in X-linked retinoschisis: Does RS1 secretory mechanism determine disease severity?” PLoS One. 2018 May 31;13(5):e0198086.


• Elchuri SV, Rajasekaran S, Miles WO. RNA-Sequencing of Primary Retinoblastoma Tumors Provides New Insights and Challenges Into Tumor Development. Front Genet. 2018 May 17;9:170.


• Aditya Bansal, Veena Noronha, Subramanian Krishnakumar, Vikas Khetan. “A Tale of Absent Crystalline Lens in an Eye with Retinoblastoma”. Ocular Oncology and Pathology (Karger) June 2018; 4(4):250-253.


• Selvan LDN, Danda R, Madugundu AK, PuttamalleshVN, Sathe GJ, Krishnan UM, Khetan V, Rishi P, Prasad TSK, Pandey A, Krishnakumar S, Gowda H, Elchuri SV “Phosphoproteomics of Retinoblastoma: A Pilot Study Identifies Aberrant Kinases” Molecules. 2018 Jun 15;23(6).


• Aditya Sethi, Shikha Talwar Bassi, Veena Noronha, Lily K Therese “Diagnosis in a case total ophthalmoplegia - where time is life”. . Neuro- Ophthalmology. 2018 Jun 26;43(2):120-122.


• Janani MK, Durgadevi P, Padmapriya J, Malathi J, Kulandai LT, Rao Madhavan HN. “First Report on Detection of Dengue Virus in the Donor cornea”. Cornea Dec 2018; 37(12):1586-9


• Parthasarathy D, Madhuravasal JK, Jayavel P, Kulandai LT, Rao MH, Jambulingam M. “Expression analysis of toll-like receptors of Dengueinfected cornea by real-time polymerase chain reaction”. Inflammation Research. 2018 Jul;67(7):555-558.


• Nareshkumar RN, Sulochana KN, Coral K “Inhibition of angiogenesis in endothelial cells by human lysyl oxidase propeptide” Scientific Report 2018, Jul 11;8(1):10426.


• Anil Chekuri, Aditya A. Guru, Pooja Biswas, Kari Branham, Shyamanga Borooah, Angel Soto-Hermida, Michael Hicks, Naheed W. Khan, Hiroko Matsui, Akhila Alapati, Sripriya Sarangapani, Sinnakaruppan Mathavan, Amalio Telenti, John R. Heckenlively, S. Amer Riazuddin, Kelly A. Frazer, Paul A. Sieving and Radha Ayyagari. “IFT88 mutations identified in individuals with non-syndromic recessive retinal degeneration result in abnormal ciliogenesis”. (2018): Human Genetics 2018 Jul;137(6-7): 447–458.


• Hemavathy Nagarajan, Umashankar Vetrivel “Demystifying the pH dependent conformational changes of human heparanase pertaining to structure–function relationships: an in silico approach” Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design (Springer Nature), 2018 Aug;32(8):821-840.


• Bhavna S. Rao, Samdani Ansar, Tharigopala Arokiaswamy, Rachapalli R. Sudhir, Umashankar Vetrivel, Rama Rajagopal, Nagasamy soumittra. “Analysis of candidate genes ZEB1 and LOXHD1 in late-onset Fuchs' endothelial corneal dystrophy in an Indian cohort”. Ophthalmic Genet. 2018 Aug;39(4):443-449.


• Bhende M, Raman R, Singh N, Jain M, Sharma T, Gopal L, Bhende PS, Srinivasan S, Jambulingam M; Sankara Nethralaya Vitreoretinal Study Group. “Risk Factors for Endophthalmitis after Pars Plana Vitrectomies in a Tertiary Eye Institute in India”. Ophthalmol Retina. 2018 Aug;2(8):779- 784.


• S Vidya, R Ramya, K Coral, K N Sulochana, S R Bharathi Devi. “Free amino acids hydroxyproline, lysine, and glycine promote differentiation of retinal pericytes to adipocytes: A protective role against proliferative diabetic retinopathy”. Exp Eye Res 2018 Aug;173:179-187.


• Murugan Nandagopal, Durgadevi Parthasarathy, Rajeswari Mahadevan, Padmapriya Jayavel, Hajib N Madhavan, Malathi Jambulingam “Metagenomics study among four contact lens wearers from India” Gene Reports. Sep 1;12:208-17.


• Shanmuganathan S, Angayarkanni N. “Chebulagic acid Chebulinic acid and Gallic acid, the active principles of Triphala, inhibit TNFα induced proangiogenic and pro-inflammatory activities in retinal capillary endothelial cells by inhibiting p38, ERK and NFkB phosphorylation”. Vascul Pharmacol. 2018 Sep;108:23-35.


• Danda R, Ganapathy K, Sathe G, Madugundu AK, Krishnan UM, Khetan V, Rishi P, Gowda H, Pandey A, Subramanian K, Prasad TK, Elchuri SV. “Membrane Proteome of Invasive Retinoblastoma: Differential Proteins and Biomarkers”. Proteomics Clinical Applications 2018 Sep;12(5):e1700101.


• Akilandeswari Balachandran, Ajit Zambre, Jagjot Singh Kainth, Lakshmi Dhevi Nagarajha Selvan, Sowmya Parameswaran, Zahra Afrasiabi, Subramanian Krishnakumar, Raghuraman Kannan, Anandhi Upendran. “Targeting HMGA protein inhibits retinoblastoma cell proliferation”. RSC Advances 09/2018; 8(55):31510-31514.


• Rebecca M, Gayathri R, Bhuvanasundar R, Sripriya K, Shantha B, Angayarkanni N. “Elastin modulation and modification by homocysteine: a key factor in the pathogenesis of Pseudoexfoliation syndrome?” Br J Ophthalmol. 2019 Jul; 103(7): 985-992. Epub 2018 Sep 24.


• Janani MK, Jaichandran V, Madhavan HN, Vijaya L, George RJ, Ambastha PS, Manu A, Malathi J. “Effect of Lignocaine Concentration on Human Fibroblasts Growth in Eyes Undergoing Trabeculectomy: An in vitro Study”. Biomedicine Hub. Oct 2018;3(3):1-0.


• Anupriya sadasivam, Umashankar Vetrivel “Identification of potential drugs targeting L, L-diaminopimelate aminotransferase of Chlamydia trachomatis: An integrative pharmacoinformatics approach”. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 2018 Oct 10.


• Umashankar Vetrivel, Hemavathy Nagarajan “Deciphering ophthalmic adaptive inhibitors targeting RON4 of Toxoplasma gondii: An integrative in silico approach”. Life Sciences, Elsevier 2018 Nov 15;213:82-93.


• Sivagurunathan Suganya, Raman R, Chidambaram Subbulakshmi. “PIWIlike protein, HIWI2: A novel player in proliferative diabetic retinopathy”. Experimental Eye Research. 2018 Dec;177:191-196.


• Marian Pauly, Mekhla Naik, Krishnakumar Subramanian, Giridhar Anantharaman. “Rosai–Dorfman disease with isolated lacrimal gland enlargement”. Oman Journal of Ophthalmology 2018 Sep-Dec;11(3):297- 299.


• Anand AR, Rachel G, Parthasarathy D. “HIV proteins and endothelial dysfunction: implications in cardiovascular disease”. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 2018 Dec 19;5:185. Review.


• V Balachandar, L Anand, B Venkatesh, J Kaavya, I Mahalaxmi, S Mohana Devi. “Screening of chromosomal alterations, K-RAS mutations and DNA methylation status in APC promoter of familial and sporadic cases with carcinoma of the ampulla of vater in Tamil Nadu population”. Gut (BMJ Journals) (2018).


• Shanmuganathan S, Angayarkanni N. “Chebulagic acid and Chebulinic acid inhibit TGF-β1 induced fibrotic changes in the chorio-retinal endothelial cells by inhibiting ERK phosphorylation”. Microvasc Res. 2019 Jan;121:14-23.


• Sahoo S, Ravi Kumar RK, Nicolay B, Mohite O, Sivaraman K, Khetan V, Rishi P, Ganesan S, Subramanian Krishnakumar, Raman K, Miles W, Elchuri SV. “Metabolite systems profiling identifies exploitable weaknesses in retinoblastoma”. FEBS Letters. 2019 Jan;593(1):23-41.


• Amit C, Shalani M, Sargunam J, Meena L, Lily Therese K, Umasankar V, Prema P, Narayanan J. “Designing and enhancing the antifungal activity of corneal specific cell penetrating peptide using gelatin hydrogel delivery system”. International Journal of Nanomedicine 2019 Jan 15; 14:605- 622.


• Raman R, Srinivasan S, Virmani S, Sivaprasad S, Rao C, Rajalakshmi R. “Fundus photograph-based deep learning algorithms in detecting diabetic retinopathy”. Eye (Lond). 2019 Jan;33(1):97-109. Epub 2018 Nov 6. Review.


• Karthikka P, Rajiv Raman, Sulochana KN, Subbulakshmi C. “Adiponectin: A potential candidate for treating fibrosis in posterior segment of the eye”. Medical Hypotheses (Elsevier) 2019 Feb;123:9-12.


• Nareshkumar RN, Gayathree K, Dhanashree Ratra, Coral.K. “Effect of brilliant Blue-G on cellular stress response in retinal pigment epithelial cells: In vitro”. Exp Eye Res. 2019 Apr; 181:157-162. Epub 2019 Feb 1.


• Raguraman R, Parameswaran S, Kanwar JR, Khetan V, Rishi P, Kanwar RK, Krishnakumar S. “Evidence of Tumour Microenvironment and Stromal Cellular Components in Retinoblastoma”. Ocul Oncol Pathol. 2019 Feb; 5(2):85-93.


• Athyala PK, Chitipothu S, Kanwar JR, Krishnakumar S, Narayanan J. “Synthesis of saporin-antibody conjugates for targeting EpCAM positive tumour cells” IET Nanobiotechnol. 2019 Feb;13(1):90-99


• Palanisamy Karthiga, Nareshkumar RN, Sivagurunathan S, Raman R, Sulochana KN, Chidambaram Subbulakshmi. “Anti-angiogenic effect of adiponectin in human primary microvascular and macrovascular endothelial cells”. Microvascular Research 2019 Mar; 122:136-145.


• Agarwal S, Iyer G, Srinivasan B, Benurwar S, Agarwal M, Narayanan N, Lakshmipathy M, Radhika N, Rajagopal R, KrishnakumarS. K.Lily Therese. “Clinical profile, risk factors and outcome of medical, surgical and adjunct interventions in patients with Pythium insidiosum keratitis”. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 2019 Mar; 103(3):296-300.


• Bhargava M, Benurwar S, Krishnakumar S. “Conjunctival Colloid Milium”. Cornea. 2019 Mar; 38(3):386-387.


• Kumar D, Vetrivel U, Parameswaran S, Subramanian KK. “Structural insights on druggable hotspots in CD147: A bull's eye view”. Life Sci. 2019 May 1; 224:76-87. Epub 2019 Mar 20.

National Journals :

• Geetha Iyer, Shweta Agarwal, Bhaskar Srinivasan, Angayarkanni Narayanasamy “Isolation of acid from eye drop bottles being used by patients presenting with presumed scleritis” Indian J Ophthalmol 2018 Aug;66(8):1084-7.


• Anmol U Naik, V Jaya Prakash, Pradeep Susvar, K Lily Therese, C K Parameswari “Postoperative endophthalmitis due to Pseudomonas luteola: First reported case of acute and virulent presentation from a tertiary eye care centre in South India” Indian J Ophthalmol. 2018 Aug;66(8):1200-1202.


• Selvaraj JR, Sudharshan S, Therese LK, Janani MK, Selvamuthu P et al. Real-time polymerase chain reaction for diagnosis and management of HIV-induced uveitis. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2018 Nov;66(11):1634-1636


• Rama Rajagopal, pratik V. Kataria, Sudharshan Sridharan, S Krishnakumar, Lily Therese K, Poongulali Selvamithu “Simultaneous presentation of ocular surface squamous neoplasia with viral retinitis in HIV-positive patients with low CD4 counts” Indian J Opthalmol 2019 Jan;67(1):116-117.


• Srinivasan V, Radhakrishnan S, Angayarkanni N, Sulochana KN. inhidiabetic effect of free amino acids supplementation in human visceral adipocytes through adiponectin-dependent mechanism. Indian J Med Res. 2019 Jan; 149(1):41-46.

International Journals :

• Sudha D, Kohansal-Nodehi M, Kovuri P, Manda SS, Neriyanuri S, Gopal L, Bhende P, Chidambaram S, Arunachalam JP. “Proteomic profiling of human intraschisis cavity fluid”. Clin Proteomics. 2017 Apr 24;14:13.


• Selvi R, Bhuvanasundar R, Angayarkanni N. “Amino Acid Mixture Acts as a Potent VEGF Lowering Agent in CHO-K1 Cells Exposed to High Glucose”. Arch Med Res. 2017 Apr;48(3):238-246.


• Mary MJ, Saravanan L, Deecaraman M, Vijayalakshmi M, Umashankar V, Sailaja J. “Polymorphism of the PAI-1gene (4G/5G) may be linked with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and associated pregnancy disorders in South Indian Women”. Bioinformation. 2017 May 31;13(5):149-153.


• Sudha D, Ganapathy A, Mohan P, Mannan AU, Krishna S, Neriyanuri S, Swaminathan M, Rishi P, Chidambaram S, Arunachalam JP. “Clinical and genetic analysis of Indian patients with NDP-related retinopathies”. Int Ophthalmol. 2018 Jun;38(3):1251-1260. Epub 2017 Jun 10.


• Bhavsar D, Subramanian K, Sethuraman S, Maheswari Krishnan U. “Nano-in-Nano' Hybrid Liposomes Increase Target Specificity and Gene Silencing Efficiency in Breast Cancer induced SCID Mice”.Eur J Pharm Biopharm. 2017 Jun 6. pii: S0939-6411(17)30685-9.


• Athyala PK, Kanwar JR, Chitipothu S, Kanwar RK, Krishnakumar S, Watson JP, Narayanan J. “Neocarzinostatin, Aptamer Conjugates for Targeting EpCAM-positive Tumor Cells”. Anticancer Res. 2017 Jul;37(7):3615-3629.


• Anupriya Sadhasivam & Umashankar Vetrivel, “Genome-wide codon usage profiling of ocular infective Chlamydia trachomatis serovars and drug target identification”. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. Taylor & Francis, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics Volume 36, 2018 Pages 1979-2003, Published online: 04 Jul 2017.


• Krishna S, Neriyanuri S, Sripriya S, Sen P, Chidambaram S, Arunachalam JP. Sarangapani S, et al., “Genetic association study of exfoliation syndrome identifies a protective rare variant at LOXL1 and five new susceptibility loci”. Ophthalmic Genet. 2017 May-Jun;38(3):260-266. Nat Genet. 2017 Jul;49(7):993-1004.


• Sivagurunathan S, Arunachalam JP, Chidambaram S. “PIWI-like protein, HIWI2 is aberrantly expressed in retinoblastoma cells and affects cell-cycle potentially through OTX2”. Cell Mol Biol Lett. 2017 Aug 29;22:17.


• Khan NA, Govindaraj P, Soumittra N, Sharma S, Srilekha S, Ambika S, Vanniarajan A, Meena AK, Uppin MS, Sundaram C, Bindu PS, Gayathri N, Taly AB,Thangaraj K. “Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy-Specific Mutation m.11778G>A Exists on Diverse Mitochondrial Haplogroups in India”. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2017 Aug 1;58(10):3923-3930.


• Nahid Akhtar Khan, Periyasamy Govindaraj, Nagasamy Soumittra, Sonika Sharma, Sundaramoorthy Srilekha, Selvakumar Ambika, et al. “Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy – Specific Mutationm.11778G>A Exists on Diverse Mitochondrial Haplogroups in India”. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2017. 2017 Aug 1;58(10):3923-3930.


• Alam MS, Subramanian N, Desai AS, Krishnakumar S. “Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma of the orbit: A case report with 5 years of follow-up”. Orbit 2017 Aug 16, Pages 73-75.


• Alam S, Backiavathy V, Mukherjee B, Krishnakumar S. “A rare case of giant multicystic solitary fibrous tumor of the orbit”. Orbit 37(1) August 2017.


• Sreelakshmi KV, Chandra A, Krishnakumar S, Natarajan V, Khetan V. “Anterior Chamber Invasion in Retinoblastoma: Not an Indication for Adjuvant Chemotherapy”. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2017 Sep 1.


• Vinita K, Sripriya S, Sharmila FM, Vaitheeswaran K, Rajiv Raman, Sharma T. “High order interaction analysis of SNPs in PEDF (rs12150053, rs12948385) and EPO (rs1617640) genes with clinical determinants of type 2 diabetic retinopathy patients from south India”. Meta Gene Vol.13 Sep 2017 Pages 92-98.


• Md. Shahid Alam, D. Vaidehi, K. Lily Therese and Mohammad Javed Ali. “Rare Pleurostomophora richardsiae Mass Causing Transient Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction 2017 Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery: November/December 2017 - Volume 33 - Issue 6 - p e154–e156.


• Rishi E, Rishi P, Bhende P, Raman R, Sen P, Susvar P, Rao C, Therese L, Hirawat R. “Enterococcus faecalis Endophthalmitis in Children - A 21 Year Study”. Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2018;26(4):543-549. Epub 2017 Oct 13.


• Vetrivel U, Nagarajan H, Thirumudi I. “Design of inhibitory peptide targeting Toxoplasma gondii RON4-human β-tubulin interactions by implementing structural bioinformatics methods”. J Cell Biochem. 2018 Apr;119(4):3236-3246. Epub 2017 Dec 26.


• Kalmodia S, Parameswaran S, Ganapathy K, Yang W, Barrow CJ, Kanwar JR, Roy K, Vasudevan M, Kulkarni K, Elchuri SV, Krishnakumar S. “Characterization and Molecular Mechanism of Peptide-Conjugated Gold Nanoparticle Inhibiting p53-HDM2 Interaction in Retinoblastoma”. Mol Ther Nucleic Acids. 2017 Dec 15;9:349-364. Epub 2017 Oct 20.


• Bhende M, Raman R, Jain M, Shah PK, Sharma T, Gopal L, Bhende PS, Srinivasan S, Jambulingam M, Sankara Nethralaya Vitreoretinal Study Group (SNVR-Study Group). “Incidence, microbiology, and outcomes of endophthalmitis after 111,876 pars plana vitrectomies at a single, tertiary eye care hospital”. PLoS One. 2018 Jan 16;13(1):e0191173.


• Kharel Sitaula R, Janani MK, Madhavan HN, Biswas J. “Outcome of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis in 100 suspected cases of infectious uveitis”. J Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect. 2018 Jan 10;8(1):2.


• Srividya G, Jain M, Mahalakshmi K, Gayathri S, Raman R, Angayarkanni N. “A novel and less invasive technique to assess cytokine profile of vitreous in patients of diabetic macular oedema”. Eye (Lond). 2018 Apr;32(4):820-829. Epub 2018 Jan 5.


• Sowmya P, S Krishnakumar, Vikas Khetan. “The Roundabout Way of Finding the Right Target”. Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, Jan 2018;55(1):11-12.


• Gayathree K, Nareshkumar RN, Aberami S, Sulochana KN, Srinivasan V & Coral K. “Hyperglycemia induced early growth response-1 regulates vascular dysfunction in human retinal endothelial cells” Microvascular Research 2018 Jan 4;117:37-43


• James Chodosh, Ashrafali Ismail, Gurdeep Singh, Jaya Rajaiya, Donald Seto, Tiange Cui, Kalpana Dommaraju, ShoalehDehghan, Jason Seto, Susmita Shrivastava, Nadia Fedorova, Neha Gupta, Timothy Stockwell, RamanaMadupu, Albert Heim, Eric Romanowski, Regis Kowalski, Adriana Kajon, Jambulingam Malathi, Kuzhanthai Therese, Hajib Madhavan, Leonardo Ferreyra, Qiwei Zhang, Morris Jones, and David Dyer. “Genomic analysis of a large set of currently – and historically – important human adenovirus pathogens", Emerging Microbes & Infections - 2018 Feb 7;7(1):10.


• Muthukumaran S, Bhuvanasundar R, Umashankar V, Sulochana KN. “Insights on ornithine decarboxylase silencing as a potential strategy for targeting retinoblastoma”. Biomed Pharmacother. 2018 Feb;98:23-28. Epub 2017 Dec 11.


• Shweta Agarwal Geetha Iyer, Bhaskar Srinivasan, Mamta Agarwal, Shobha Panchalam Sampath Kumar, Lily K Therese, Clinical profile of Pythium keratitis: perioperative measures to reduce risk of recurrence, Journal of Ophthalmology 2018 Feb;102(2):153-157.


• Rishi P, Krishnakumar S, Biswas J, Nair S. Atypical Presentation of Bilateral Retinoblastoma with Floaters and Sub-Internal Limiting Membrane Seeds in an 11-Year-Old Asian Indian Male. Ocul Oncol Pathol Feb 2018;309–12.


• S Muthukumaran, V Umashankar. “Virtual screening of Natural inhibitors targeting Ornithine Decarboxylase with pharmacophore scaffolding of DFMO and validation by molecular dynamics simulation studies”. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics Publisher Taylor & Francis, Feb:2018.


• Srikrupa NN, Srilekha S, Sen P, Arokiasamy T, Meenakshi S, Bhende M, Kapur S, Soumittra N. “Genetic profile and mutation spectrum of Leber congenital amaurosis in a larger Indian cohort using high throughput targeted re-sequencing”. Clin Genet. 2018 Feb;93(2):329-339.


• Murugan N, Malathi J, Therese KL, Madhavan HN. “Application of six multiplex PCR's among 200 clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa for the detection of 20 drug resistance encoding genes”. Kaohsiung J Med Sci. 2018 Feb;34(2):79-88. Epub 2017 Nov 6.


• Agarwal S, Iyer G, Srinivasan B, Agarwal M, Panchalam Sampath Kumar S, Therese LK. “Clinical profile of pythium keratitis: perioperative measures to reduce risk of recurrence”. Br J Ophthalmol. 2018 Feb;102(2):153-157. Epub 2017 Sep 13.


• Gurumurthy S, Iyer G, Srinivasan B, Agarwal S, Angayarkanni N. “Ocular surface cytokine profile in chronic Stevens-Johnson syndrome and its response to mucous membrane grafting for lid margin keratinisation. Br J Ophthalmol. 2018 Feb;102(2):169-176. Epub 2017 Jul 8.


• Iyer Gomathy Narayanan, Sulochana K. Natarajan. “Peptides derived from histidine and methionine-rich regions of copper transporter 1 exhibit anti-angiogenic property by chelating extracellular Cu”. Chemical Biology & Drug Design. 2018 Mar;91(3):797-804. Epub 2017 Dec 6.


• Vincent A, Khetan V, Rishi P, Suganeswari G, Krishnakumar S, Krishnan UM, Parameswaran S. “Generation of a human induced pluripotent stem cell line (VRFi001-A) from orbital adipose tissue of a bilateral retinoblastoma patient with heterozygous RB1 gene deletion”. Stem Cell Res. 2018 May;29:42-45. Epub 2018 Mar 19.


• Samdani A, Vetrivel U. “POAP: A GNU parallel based multithreaded pipeline of open babel and AutoDock suite for boosted high throughput virtual screening”. Comput Biol Chem. 2018 Jun;74:39-48. Epub 2018 Mar 1.


• Smirnov VM, Zeitz C, Soumittra N, Audo I, Defoort-Dhellemmes S. “Retinal findings in a patient of French ancestry with CABP4-related retinal disease”. Doc Ophthalmol. 2018 Apr;136(2):135-143. Epub 2018 Mar 10.

National Journals :

• Bharathidevi SR, Babu KA, Jain N, Muthukumaran S, Umashankar V, Biswas J, Angayarkanni N. “Ocular distribution of antioxidant enzyme paraoxonase & its alteration in cataractous lens & diabetic retina”. Indian J Med Res. 2017 Apr;145(4):513-520.


• Alam MS, Mukherjee B, Krishnakumar S, Biswas J. “Malignant perivascular epithelioid cell tumor of the orbit Report of a case and review of literature”. Indian J Ophthalmol Sep 2017.


• Rao BS, Tharigopala A, Rachapalli SR, Rajagopal R, Soumittra N. “Association of polymorphisms in the intron of TCF4 gene to late-onset Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy: An Indian cohort study”. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2017 Oct;65(10):931-935.


• Niveditha Narayanan, D.Vaidehi, L.Dhanurekha, K.Lily Therese, Rama Rajagopal, Radhika Narayanan Meena Lakshmipathy. “Unusual ulcerative keratitis caused by Protheca wickerhamii in a diabetic patient” Indian Journal of Ophthalmology ijo _644_17 pp 311-313


• Shanmuganathan S, Sumantran VN, Angayarkanni N. “Epigallocatechin gallate & curcumin prevent transforming growth factor beta 1-induced epithelial to mesenchymal transition in ARPE-19 cells”. Indian J Med Res. 2017 Nov;146(Suppl):S85-S96.


• Chandrasekar SP, Namboothiri S, Sen P, Sarangapani S. Screening for mutation hotspots in Bardet-Biedl syndrome patients from India. Indian J Med Res. 2018 Feb;147(2):177-182.

Chapters in Books

• SatyaPriya C, Srilekha S, Sudha K, SripriyaS, SoumittraN. Homozygosity Mapping for Autosomal Recessive Ocular Diseases, in : Advances in Vision Research. Volume I: Genetic Eye Research in Asia and the Pacific, Prakash, Gyan, Iwata, Takeshi (Eds), pp449-456, 2017.


• Sripriya S, Raman R, Soumittra N, Pandian AJ. Current research perspectives in understanding diabetic retinopathy, in: advances in Vision Research. Volume I: Genetic Eye Research in Asia and the Pacific, Prakash, Gyan, Iwata, Takeshi (Eds), pp 259-274, 2017

• Maneesh Paul-Satyaseela, Murali Sowmiya, Thirunavukkarasu Bharani, Hajib Naraharirao Madhavan, and Jambulingam Malathi. "Characterization of antibiotic resistance profiles of ocular Enterobacteriaceae isolates.” European Journal of Microbiology & Immunology; 14 Mar 2016: 6(1): 40–48.


• Khor CC, Do T, Jia H, Nakano M, George R, Abu-Amero K, Duvesh R, Chen LJ, Li Z, Nongpiur ME, Perera SA, Qiao C, Wong HT, Sakai H, Barbosa de Melo M, Lee MC, Chan AS, Azhany Y, Dao TL, Ikeda Y, Perez-Grossmann RA, Zarnowski T, Day AC, Jonas JB, Tam PO, Tran TA, Ayub H, Akhtar F, Micheal S, Chew PT,Aljasim LA, Dada T, Luu TT, Awadalla MS, Kitnarong N, Wanichwecharungruang B, Aung YY, Mohamed-Noor J, Vijayan S, Sarangapani S, Husain R, Jap A,Baskaran M, Goh D, Su DH, Wang H, Yong VK, Yip LW, Trinh TB, Makornwattana M, Nguyen TT, Leuenberger EU, Park KH, Wiyogo WA, Kumar RS, Tello C,Kurimoto Y, Thapa SS, Pathanapitoon K, Salmon JF, Sohn YH, Fea A, Ozaki M, Lai JS, Tantisevi V, Khaing CC, Mizoguchi T, Nakano S, Kim CY, Tang G, Fan S,Wu R, Meng H, Nguyen TT, Tran TD, Ueno M, Martinez JM, Ramli N, Aung YM, Reyes RD, Vernon SA, Fang SK, Xie Z, Chen XY, Foo JN, Sim KS, Wong TT, Quek DT, Venkatesh R, Kavitha S, Krishnadas SR, Soumittra N, et al. “Genome-wide association study identifies five new susceptibility loci for primary angle closure glaucoma” Nature Genetics 4 Apr2016. doi: 10.1038/ng.354.


• Gayathri R, Coral K, Sharmila F, Sripriya S, Sripriya K, Manish P, Shantha B, Ronnie G, Vijaya L, Angayarkanni N. “Correlation of Aqueous Humor Lysyl Oxidase Activity with TGF-ss Levels and LOXL1 Genotype in Pseudoexfoliation.” Current Eye Research. Apr 2016;41(10):1331-8.


• Gopakumar V, Chatterjee N, Parameswaran S, Nirmala S, Krishnakumar S. “In vitro transdifferentiation of human skin keratinocytes to corneal epithelial cells.” Cytotherapy. 2016 May; 18(5):673-85.


• Rajiv Raman, Singh H. Sumeer, Ramya Appanraj, Malathi Jambulingam, Muna Bhende, MS, Rupak Roy, MS, Tarun Sharma. “Five-year Incidence and visual Outcomes in Postintravitreal Injection Endophthalmitis.” Ophthalmology. May 2016, Vol.123 No.5, 1162-1164.


• Umashankar Vetrivel, Shalini Muralikumar, B Mahalakshmi, K Lily Therese, HN Madhavan, Mohamed Alameen, Indhuja Thirumudi. Multilevel Precision-Based Rational Design of Chemical Inhibitors Targeting the Hydrophobic Cleft of Toxoplasma gondii Apical Membrane Antigen 1 (AMA1).” Genomics & Informatics. Jun 2016; 14(2):53-61.


• Neuillé M, Malaichamy S, Vadalà M, Michiels C, Condroyer C, Sachidanandam R, Srilekha S, Arokiasamy T, Letexier M, Démontant V, Sahel JA, Sen Parveen, Audo I, Soumittra N, Zeitz C1. “Next-generation sequencing confirms the implication of SLC24A1 in autosomal-recessive congenital stationary night blindness.” Clinical Genetics, vol. 89, no. 6, pp. 690–9, Jun. 2016.


• Bharathselvi M, Biswas S, Rajiv Raman, Selvi R, Coral K, Angayarkanni N, Ramakrishnan S and Sulochana KN. “Homocysteine & its metabolite homocysteine-thiolactone & deficiency of copper in patients with age related macular degeneration - A pilot study.” Indian Journal of Medical Research. Jun 2016; 143(6):756-62.


• Srilekha Sundaramurthy, Meenakshi Swaminathan, Parveen Sen, Tharigopala Arokiasamy, Swati Deshpande, Neetha John, Rupali A Gadkari, Ashraf U. Mannan, Nagasamy Soumittra. “Homozygosity mapping guided next generation sequencing to identify the causative genetic variation in inherited retinal degenerative diseases.” Journal of Human Genetics. Jul 7, 2016. doi: 10.1038/jhg.2016.83


• Arun John, Muthukumaran Sivashanmugam, Vetrivel Umashankar, Sulochana Konerirajapuram Natarajan. “Virtual Screening, Molecular dynamics and binding free energy calculations on Human Carbonic Anhydrase IX catalytic domain for deciphering potential leads.” Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics. Jul 2016; Vol35 No.10.2155-2168


• Dr N Soumittra participated in the Research Methodology Workshop at Center for Medical Genetics, Chennai, on 20thAugust 2016 and delivered a talk on “Homozygosity mapping for identification of candidate gene or novel locus in autosomal recessive disease – research methodology”. Dr M VimalinJeyalatha also attended the workshop.


• Srilekha S, Bhavana S, Divya M R, Sudha D, Sathya Priya C, Pandian AJ, Soumittra N, Sripriya S. “Strategies for gene mapping in inherited ophthalmic diseases.” Asia Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology (Phila) Jul-Aug 2016; 5(4):282-92


• Arun John, Umashankar Vetrivel, Krishnakumar Subramanian, Perinkulam Ravi Deepa. “Comparative docking of dual conformations in human fatty acid synthase thioesterase domain reveals potential binding cavity for virtual screening of ligands.” Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics Aug 2016; 35(6):1350-1366.


• Jaya Singh, Avshesh Mishra, Arunachalam Jayamuruga Pandian, Ashwin C. Mallipatna, Vikas Khethan, Suguneswari, Pukraj Rishi, Sarangapani Sripriya, etal. “Next-generation sequencing-based method shows increased mutation detection sensitivity in an Indian retinoblastoma cohort.” Molecular Vision Aug 2016; 22:1036-47. eCollection 2016


• Jayashree B, Srimany A, Jayaraman S, Bhutra Anjali, Janakiraman Narayanan, Chitipothu Srujana, Krishnakumar S, Baddireddi LS, Elchuri Sailaja, Pradeep T. “Monitoring of changes in lipid profiles during PLK1 knockdown in cancer cells using DESI MS.” Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 408.20 Aug 2016: 5623-5632.


• Perinkulam Ravi Deepa, John Arun, Vetrivel Umashankar, A Samdani, Manoharan Sangeetha, Subramanian Krishnakumar. “In Silico Structure Prediction of Human Fatty Acid Synthase–Dehydratase: A Plausible Model for Understanding Active Site Interactions.” Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, Aug 2016.


• Sathya Priya C, Sheela N, Parveen Sen, Sripriya S. “Bardet-Biedl Syndrome: Genetics, molecular pathophysiology and Disease management.” Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, Sep 2016; 64(9):620-627.


• Rishi Ekta, Rishi Pukhraj, Therese K Lily, Ramasubban Gayathri, Biswas Jyotirmay, Tarun Sharma, Pramod Bhende, Pradeep Susvar, Mamta Agarwal, Amala Elizabeth George,Kushal Delhiwala and Vishal Rajan Sharma. “Culture and Reverse, Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) proven Mycobacterium tuberculosis Endophthalmitis: A Case Series.” Ocular immunology and inflammation, Sep 2016:1-8.


• Bharathi Devi SR, Dhivya MA, Sulochana KN. “Copper transporters and chaperones: Their function on angiogenesis and cellular signalling.” Journal of Biosciences. Sep 2016;41(3):487-96.


• Srividya Neriyanuri, Sudha Dhandayuthapani, Jayamuruga Pandian Arunachalam, Rajiv Raman. “Phenotypic characterization of X-linked retinoschisis: Clinical, electroretinography, and optical coherence tomography variables.” Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 64, no. 7, p. 513-517, Sep 2016..


• Dhandayuthapani Sudha, Irene Rosita Pia Patric, Aparna Ganapathy, Smitha Agarwal, Shuba Krishna, Srividya Neiyanuri, Sarangapani Sripriya, Parveen Sen, Subbulakshmi Chidambaram and Jayamuruga Pandian Arunachalam. “Genetic studies in a patient with X-linked Retinoschisis coexisting with developmental delay and sensorineural hearing loss.” Ophthalmic Genetics, Epub-Sep 2016: P: 1-7.


• Sumita Agarkar, Roshani Desai, Malathi Jambulingam, Singh H. Sumeer, Rajiv Raman. “Incidence, management, and visual outcomes in pediatric endophthalmitis following cataract surgery by a single surgeon.” Journal of AAPOS Oct 2016; 20(5): 415-418.


• Samuel, R. K. Kanwar, J. R. Kanwar, V. Khetan, and S. Krishnakumar. “A Study of Gene Expression of Survivin, its Antiapoptotic Variants, and Targeting Survivin In Vitro for Therapy in Retinoblastoma,” Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, vol. 38, no.7, pp.e230–e242, Oct. 2016.


• Alam MS, Poonam NS, Biswas J, Krishnakumar S. “Epibulbar schwannoma: a case report and review of the literature.” Can J Ophthalmol. Oct 2016; 51(5):e155-57.


• Kannadasan Anand Babu, S.R Bharathidevi, Sarangapani Sripriya, Parveen Sen, Vadivelu Jaya Prakash, Appukuttan Bindu, Natarajan Viswanathan, Narayanasamy A. “Serum Paraoxonase activity in relation to lipid profile in Age-related Macular Degeneration patients.” Experimental Eye Research Nov 2016; 152:100-112.


• N. Murugan, J. Malathi, V. Umashankar, H.N. Madhavan. “Unraveling Genomic and Phenotypic nature of Multidrug-Resistant (MDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa VRFPA04 Isolated from Keratitis Patient.” Microbiological Research. Dec 2016.


• Rajalakshmy A R, Malathi J, Madhavan H N, Bhaskar S, Iyer G K. “Internalisation of hepatitis C virus core protein by human conjunctival fibroblasts.” Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, Dec 2016;34:536-8.


• Jyotirmay Biswas, Mohmmad Salman Kazi, Vishvesh Ashokkumar Agarwal, Md. Shahid Alam and K Lily Therese. “Polymerase chain reaction for Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA detection from ocular fluids in patients with various types of choroiditis in a referral eye center in India.” Indian Journal Ophthalmology, Dec 2016, vol. 64, no. 12, p. 904-907..


• R Indhushree RM, K Coral, N Angayarkanni, R Punitham, BM Subburathinam, R Krishnakumar, PP Santanam. “Visual functions of workers exposed to organic solvents in petrochemical industries.” Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Dec 2016;20(3):133-7.


• Dipankar Das, Varsha Ramachandra, Saidul Islam, Harsha Bhattacharjee, Jyotirmay Biswas, Akanksha Koul, Panna Deka, Apurba Deka. “Update on pathology of ocular parasitic disease.” Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, Dec 2016. Vol.64, No.11, p. 794-802.


• Aakalu VK, Parameswaran S, Maienschein-Cline M, Bahroos N, Shah D, Ali M, Krishnakumar S. “Human Lacrimal Gland Gene Expression.” PLoS One. 2017 Jan 12;12(1):e0169346.


• Karpagam Veerappan, Sathishkumar Natarajan, Purushoth Ethiraj, Umashankar Vetrivel & Shila Samuel. “Inhibition of IKKβ by celastrol and its analogues – an in silico and in vitro approach.”  Pharmaceutical Biology. 55(1): 368-373. Jan 2017.


• Shalini Muralikumar, Umashankar Vetrivel, Angayarkanni Narayanasamy and Undurti N. Das. “Probing the intermolecular interactions of PPARγ-LBD with polyunsaturated fatty acids and their anti-inflammatory metabolites to infer most potential binding moieties.” Lipids in Health & Disease, Jan 2017


• Muna Bhende, Aashraya Karpe, Sukanya Arunachalam, Lily Therese, Jyotirmay Biswas. “Endogenous endophthalmitis due to Roseomonas mucosa presenting as a subretinal abscess.” Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation & Infection, Jan 2017.7:5.


• Saravanan R, Bharathselvi M, Aravind CB, Biswas J, Sulochana KN. “The 88-kDa Eales' protein in serum is a complex of haptoglobin, complement C3, and galectin-1 as identified by liquid chromatography coupled mass spectrometry.” Proteomics Clinical Applications. Jan 2017;11(1-2).


• Saijyothi Venkata Aluru, Agarwal Shweta, Srinivasan Bhaskar, Krishnan Geetha, Rajappa M.Sivakumar, Tatu Utpal, Prema Padmanabhan, Narayanasamy Angayarkanni. “Tear Fluid Protein Changes in Dry Eye Syndrome Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Proteomic Approach.” The Ocular Surface Jan 2017, Vol.15 No.1 Pages 112-129.


• Muthukumaran Sivashanmugam, Jaidev J, Umashankar V, Sulochana K.N. “Ornithine and its role in metabolic diseases: An appraisal.”  Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 86:185–194. Feb 2017.


• Murugan N, Malathi J, Umashankar V, Madhavan H.N. “Virulence genome analysis of Pseudomonas VRFPA 10 recovered from patient with scleritis.” Genomics Data, Feb 2017:12;1-3.


• Parameswaran S, Krishnakumar S. “Pluripotent stem cells: A therapeutic source for age-related macular degeneration.” Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, Mar 2017; 65(3):177-183.


• Sivagurunathan Sukanya, Palanisamy K, Arunachalam JP, Chidambaram Subbulakshmi. “Possible role of HIWI2 in modulating tight junction proteins in retinal pigment epithelial cells through Akt signaling pathway.” Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry. Mar 2017; 427(1-2):145-56.

PUBLISHED :

• R. Roy, D. Das, S. Kumar, and A. Mukherjee, “Postcataract surgery endophthalmitis caused by acinetobacter lwoffii.,” Middle East Afr. J. Ophthalmol., vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 253–4, 2015.


• Mukherjee, A. Desai, S. Krishnakumar, and J. Biswas, “A Giant Apocrine Hidrocystoma Presenting as Lacrimal Gland Mass.,” Orbit, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 342–4, 2015.


• S. Sivasankar, R. Lavanya, P. Brindha, and N. Angayarkanni, “Aqueous and alcoholic extracts of Triphala and their active compounds chebulagic acid and chebulinic acid prevented epithelial to mesenchymal transition in retinal pigment epithelial cells, by inhibiting SMAD-3 phosphorylation.,” PLoS One, vol. 10, no. 3, p. e0120512, 2015.


• M. Bipasha and P. Devi, “Lipoid proteinosis: A rare entity,” Indian J. Ophthalmol., vol. 63, no. 8, p. 680, 2015.


• M. Kazi, V. Sharma, S. Kumar, and P. Bhende, “Indications and outcomes of scleral buckle removal in a tertiary eye care center in South India,” Oman J. Ophthalmol., vol. 8, no. 3, p. 171, 2015.


• S. John, M. Premila, M. Javed, G. Vikas, and A. Wagholikar, “A Pilot Study to Improve Access to Eye Care Services for Patients in Rural India by Implementing Community Ophthalmology through Innovative Telehealth Technology.,” Stud. Health Technol. Inform., vol. 214, pp. 139–45, 2015.


• John, V. Umashankar, S. Krishnakumar, and P. R. Deepa, “Comparative Modeling and Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Substrate Binding in Human Fatty Acid Synthase: Enoyl Reductase and β-Ketoacyl Reductase Catalytic Domains.,” Genomics Inform., vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 15–24,2015.


• G. Iyer, B. Srinivasan, E. Rishi, P. Rishi, S. Agarwal, and N. Subramanian, “Large lamellar corneoscleral grafts: tectonic role in initial management of severe ocular chemical injuries.,” Eur. J. Ophthalmol., vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 12–7, 2015.


• S. I. Shaikh, J. Biswas, and P. Rishi, “Nodular syphilitic scleritis masquerading as an ocular tumor.,” J. Ophthalmic Inflamm. Infect., vol. 5, p. 8, 2015.


• Archayeeta Rakshit, Kalpa Negiloni, Sumita Agarkar, Jameel Rizwana H. “Improvement and Sustainability of Visual Functions with Action Videogame Play in an Adult with Amblyopia: A Case Report.,” Int. J. Heal. Sci. Res., vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 464–467, 2015.


• T. Das, R. Raman, K. Ramasamy, and P. K. Rani, “Telemedicine in diabetic retinopathy: current status and future directions.,” Middle East Afr. J. Ophthalmol., vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 174–8, 2015


• Gondchawar, J. Biswas, S. Murali, and L. Eawaran, “A case of herpes simplex keratouveitis diagnosed by real time polymerase chain reaction,” Indian J. Ophthalmol., vol. 63, no. 11, p. 854, 2015.


• Bharathi Devi SR, Coral K, Sulochanan KN, and Angayarkanni N, “Free Amino Acids Glycine and Glutamic Acid Inhibit Angiogenesis Induced by AGE in Bovine Retinal Endothelial Cells,” J. Glycomics Lipidomics, vol. 05, no. 02, 2015.


• S. Ganesh and A. Kaduskar, “Optic nerve head granuloma as a primary manifestation of ocular sarcoidosis - A tertiary uveitis clinic experience,” Oman J. Ophthalmol., vol. 8, no. 3, p. 157, 2015.


• M. K. Janani, J. Malathi, A. Appaswamy, N. R. Singha, and H. N. Madhavan, “A hospital based pilot study on Epstein-Barr virus in suspected infectious mononucleosis pediatric patients in India,” J. Infect. Dev. Ctries., vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 1133–1138, Oct. 2015..


• S. Kalmodia, S. Vandhana, B. R. Tejaswini Rama, B. Jayashree, T. Sreenivasan Seethalakshmi, V. Umashankar, W. Yang, C. J. Barrow, S. Krishnakumar, and S. V Elchuri, “Bio-conjugation of antioxidant peptide on surface-modified gold nanoparticles: a novel approach to enhance the radical scavenging property in cancer cell.,” Cancer Nanotechnol., vol. 7, p. 1.


• H. N. Madhavan, R. Bagyalakshmi, P. Aarthi, C. Ashok, A. Prakash, M. Sowmiya, B. Ninan, and M. Revathy, “A Study in Neonatal Sepsis Using Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based DNA Sequencing to Detect the Aetiological Agent in the Peripheral Blood of the Neonates with Sepsis,” Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci, vol. 4, no. 9, pp. 415–427, 2015.


• J. Malathi, M. Janani, N. Murugan, and M. Hn, “Draft Genome Sequence Of Human Herpes Virus-4 Vrf_Ebv_01, An Epstein Barr Virus Obtained From A Pediatric Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (Ptld) Patient,” Int. J. Pharm. Pharm. Sci., vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 513–514, 2015.


• G. Mathur, D. Ratra, S. S. Bhuibhar, and R. Roy, “Clinical Outcomes of Retinal Detachment Surgery following Cytomegalovirus Retinitis in Patients on Highly Active Anti-retroviral Therapy for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.,” Ocul. Immunol. Inflamm., vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 400–4, 2015.


• B. Mukherjee, “A Stitch in Time…,” Ophthal. Plast. Reconstr. Surg., vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 492–494, 2015.


• N. Murugan, J. Malathi, V. Umashankar, and Madhavan HN, “First Complete Genome Sequence Of Ocular Isolate Carrying Blavim-2 Mediated Multi-Drug-Resistant(Mdr) Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Vrfpa04 From India And Two Draft Genome Sequence Of Ocular Isolates Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Vrfpa03 And Vrfpa05 Harboring Novel Bla,” Int. J. Pharm. Pharm. Sci., vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 291–292, 2015.


• N. Murugan, J. Malathi, K. L. Therese, and H. N. Madhavan, “Antimicrobial Susceptibility And Prevalence Of Extended Spectrum Betalactamase (Esbl) And Metallo Betalactamase (Mbl) And Its Co-Existence Among Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Recovered From Ocular Infections,” Int. J. Pharm. Pharm. Sci., vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 147–151, 2015.


• N. Murugan, J. Malathi, V. Umashankar, and H. N. Madhavan, “Draft genome sequence of blaVeb-1, blaoxa-10 producing multi-drug resistant (MDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain VRFPA09 recovered from bloodstream infection.,” Braz. J. Microbiol., vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 639–40, 2015.


• N. Murugan, J. Malathi, K. L. Therese, and H. N. Madhavan, “Evaluation Of A Method For Detection Of Both Metallo Betalactamase (Mbl) And Efflux Production Using Carbonyl Cyanide 3-Chlorophenylhydrazone (Cccp)±Combination Method Among Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Isolated From Clinical Specimens,” Int. J. Pharm. Pharm. Sci., vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 185–189, 2015.


• S. Neriyanuri, R. Raman, P. Rishi, K. Govindasamy, V. Ramprasad, and T. Sharma, “Prenatal genetic diagnosis of retinoblastoma – clinical correlates on follow-up,” Indian J. Ophthalmol., vol. 63, no. 9, p. 741, 2015..


• Rajalakshmy, J. Malathi, H. Madhavan, and J. Samuel, “Mebiolgel, a thermoreversible polymer as a scaffold for three dimensional culture of Huh7 cell line with improved hepatocyte differentiation marker expression and HCV replication,” Indian J. Med. Microbiol., vol. 33, no. 4, p. 554, 2015.


• R. Raman, K. Santhanam, L. Gella, B. Pal, and T. Sharma, “Morphological and functional outcomes following modified early treatment diabetic retinopathy study laser in diabetic macular edema,” Oman J. Ophthalmol., vol. 8, no. 2, p. 92, 2015.


• K. Saurabh, K. Sarkar, R. Roy, and P. Majumder, “Personal and practice profile of male and female ophthalmologists in India,” Indian J. Ophthalmol., vol. 63, no. 6, p. 482, 2015.


• T. Sharma, R. Raman, D. Damkondwar, and S. Neriyanuri, “Microperimetry biofeedback training in a patient with bilateral myopic macular degeneration with central scotoma,” Indian J. Ophthalmol., vol. 63, no. 6, p. 534, 2015.


• Sowmiya M, Malathi J, Swarnali S, Priya JP, Therese KL, Madhavan HN. A study on the characterization of Propionibacterium acnes isolated from ocular clinical specimens. Indian J Med Res. 2015 Oct;142(4):438-49. doi: 10.4103/0971-5916.169209.


• S. Sreenivasan and S. Krishnakumar, “Synergistic Effect of Curcumin in Combination with Anticancer Agents in Human Retinoblastoma Cancer Cell Lines.,” Curr. Eye Res., vol. 40, no. 11, pp. 1153–65, 2015.


• N. Subramanian, J. R. Kanwar, P. K. Athalya, N. Janakiraman, V. Khetan, R. K. Kanwar, S. Eluchuri, and S. Krishnakumar, “EpCAM aptamer mediated cancer cell specific delivery of EpCAM siRNA using polymeric nanocomplex.,” J. Biomed. Sci., vol. 22, p. 4, 2015


• M. S. Alam, N. Subramanian, K. Koka, and K. Subramanian, “Orbital angioleiomyoma: A rare orbital neoplasm.,” Orbit, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 113–6, 2016.


• Thirumudi, U. Vetrivel, M. B, K. L. Therese, and H. N. Madhavan, “Insights on drug targeting of toxoplasma Gondii host invasion proteins: A review,” vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 52–57, 2015.


• N. Venkatesan, P. R. Deepa, V. Khetan, and S. Krishnakumar, “Computational and in vitro Investigation of miRNA-Gene Regulations in Retinoblastoma Pathogenesis: miRNA Mimics Strategy.,” Bioinform. Biol. Insights, vol. 9, pp. 89–101, 2015.


• Rajeswari Mahadevan,Rajni Rajan, Sheeba Swarna, And Prafulla Kuthe, “SiHy Prescribing Trends.” Contact Lens Spectrum Article Date: 4/1/2015.


• Beta M, Krishnakumar S, Elchuri SV, Salim B, Narayanan J. “A comparative fluorescent beacon-based method for serum microRNA quantification. Anal Sci. 2015;31(3):231-5. doi: 10.2116/analsci.31.231.


• N. Subramanian, J. R. Kanwar, B. Akilandeswari, R. K. Kanwar, V. Khetan, and S. Krishnakumar, “Chimeric nucleolin aptamer with survivin DNAzyme for cancer cell targeted delivery.,” Chem. Commun. (Camb)., vol. 51, no. 32, pp. 6940–3, Apr. 2015.


• Kaviarasan K, Jithu M, Arif Mulla M, Sharma T, Sivasankar S, Das UN, Angayarkanni N. “Low blood and vitreal BDNF, LXA4 and altered Th1/Th2 cytokine balance are potential risk factors for diabetic retinopathy”. Metabolism. 2015 Sep;64(9):958-66. doi: 10.1016/j.metabol.2015.04.005. Epub 2015 May 1.


• M. K. Parthasarathy and M. Bhende, “Effect of ocular magnification on macular measurements made using spectral domain optical coherence tomography.,” Indian J. Ophthalmol., vol. 63, no. 5, pp. 427–31, May 2015.


• N. Singh, S. Krishnakumar, R. K. Kanwar, C. H. A. Cheung, and J. R. Kanwar, “Clinical aspects for survivin: a crucial molecule for targeting drug-resistant cancers.,” Drug Discov. Today, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 578–87, May 2015.


• V. V. Jaichandran, R. Raman, L. Gella, and T. Sharma, “Local Anesthetic Agents for Vitreoretinal Surgery,” Ophthalmology, vol. 122, no. 5, pp. 1030–1033, May 2015.


• L. Gella, R. Raman, V. Kulothungan, S. S. S. Pal, S. Ganesan, T. Sharma R. Raman, S. S. S. Pal, G. Laxmi, and M. Gupta, et. al “Impairment of Colour Vision in Diabetes with No Retinopathy: Sankara Nethralaya Diabetic Retinopathy Epidemiology and Molecular Genetics Study (SNDREAMS- II, Report 3),” PLoS One, vol. 10, no. 6, p. e0129391, Jun. 2015.


• L. Vijaya, R. Asokan, M. Panday, N. S. Choudhari, S. Ve Ramesh, L. Velumuri, and R. George, “Six-Year Incidence and Baseline Risk Factors for Pseudoexfoliation in a South Indian Population,” Ophthalmology, vol. 122, no. 6, pp. 1158–1164, Jun. 2015.


• D. Bhavsar, K. Subramanian, S. Sethuraman, and U. M. Krishnan, “Management of retinoblastoma: opportunities and challenges.,” Drug Deliv., pp. 1–9, Jul. 2015.


• Z. Li, R. R. Allingham, M. Nakano, L. Jia, Y. Chen, Y. Ikeda, B. Mani, L.-J. Chen, C. Kee, D. F. Garway-Heath, S. Sripriya, et.al , “A common variant near TGFBR3 is associated with primary open angle glaucoma.,” Hum. Mol. Genet., vol. 24, no. 13, pp. 3880–92, Jul. 2015.


• S. Srilekha, T. Arokiasamy, N. N. Srikrupa, V. Umashankar, S. Meenakshi, P. Sen, S. Kapur, N. Soumittra, Y. Chinchore, A. Mitra, et.al , “Homozygosity Mapping in Leber Congenital Amaurosis and Autosomal Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa in South Indian Families,” PLoS One, vol. 10, no. 7, p. e0131679, Jul. 2015.


• L. Gella, R. Raman, S. S. Pal, S. Ganesan, and T. Sharma, “Fixation characteristics among subjects with diabetes: SN-DREAMS II, Report No. 5.,” Can. J. Ophthalmol., vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 302–9, Aug. 2015.


• L. Gella, R. Raman, S. S. Pal, S. Ganesan, and T. Sharma, “Incidence, Progression, and Associated Risk Factors of Posterior Vitreous Detachment in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Sankara Nethralaya Diabetic Retinopathy Epidemiology and Molecular Genetic Study (SN-DREAMS II, Report No. 7).,” Semin. Ophthalmol., pp. 1–7, Aug. 2015.


• Rishi, P. Rishi, B. Appukuttan, J. Walinjkar, J. Biswas, and T. Sharma, “Sympathetic ophthalmitis following vitreoretinal surgery: Does antecedent trauma make a difference?,” Indian J. Ophthalmol., vol. 63, no. 9, pp. 692–8, Sep. 2015.


• K. Kaviarasan, M. Jithu, M. Arif Mulla, T. Sharma, S. Sivasankar, U. N. Das, and N. Angayarkanni, “Low blood and vitreal BDNF, LXA4 and altered Th1/Th2 cytokine balance are potential risk factors for diabetic retinopathy.,” Metabolism., vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 958–66, Sep. 2015.


• N. G. Maremanda, K. Roy, R. K. Kanwar, V. Shyamsundar, V. Ramshankar, A. Krishnamurthy, S. Krishnakumar, and J. R. Kanwar, “Quick chip assay using locked nucleic acid modified epithelial cell adhesion molecule and nucleolin aptamers for the capture of circulating tumor cells.,” Biomicrofluidics, vol. 9, no. 5, p. 054110, Sep. 2015.


• B. Mukherjee, J. Kadaskar, O. Priyadarshini, S. Krishnakumar, and J. Biswas, “Angiolymphoid Hyperplasia with Eosinophilia of the Orbit and Adnexa.,” Ocul. Oncol. Pathol., vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 40–7, Sep. 2015.


• Lakshmipathy D1, Kulandai LT2, Ramasubban G1, Hajib Narahari Rao M1, Rathinam S3, Narasimhan M4. “Nested reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reactions targeting the messenger RNA of icl2, hspx, and rRNAP1 genes to detect viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from clinical specimens. Int J Mycobacteriol. 2015 Dec;4(4):312-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmyco.2015.09.005. Epub 2015 Oct 1.


• Aditya Verma, Jyotirmay Biswas, Dhanurekha Lakshmipathy, Lily Therese Kulandai Gayathri Ramasubban. “Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with nested polymerase chain reaction analysis in enucleated eye ball in Eales’ disease”. Int Ophthalmol 2015 DOI 10.1007/s10792-015-0144-9.


• J. Samuel, N. Singh, J. R. Kanwar, S. Krishnakumar, and R. K. Kanwar, “Upregulation of sodium iodide symporter (NIS) protein expression by an innate immunity component: Promising potential for targeting radiosensitive retinoblastoma.,” Exp. Eye Res., vol. 139, pp. 108–14, Oct. 2015


• S. Palla, J. Biswas, and C. K. Nagesha, “Efficacy of Ozurdex implant in treatment of noninfectious intermediate uveitis.,” Indian J. Ophthalmol., vol. 63, no. 10, pp. 767–70, Oct. 2015.


• Shrirao N, Mukherjee B, Krishnakumar S, Biswas J. Cholesterol granuloma: a case series & review of literature. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2015 Oct 6.


• Gondchawar, J. Biswas, S. Murali, andL. M. P. Eawaran, “A case of herpes simplex keratouveitis diagnosed by real time polymerase chain reaction.,” Indian J. Ophthalmol., vol. 63, no. 11, pp. 854–5, Nov. 2015.


• M. K. Janani, J. Malathi, M. Rela, M. Farouk, J. Padmapriya, and H. N. Madhavan, “Genotypic Detection of Epstein Barr Virus in Pediatric Transplant Recipients From India.,” Indian Pediatr., vol. 52, no. 11, pp. 946–50, Nov. 2015.


• M. Sangeetha, P. R. Deepa, P. Rishi, V. Khetan, and S. Krishnakumar, “Global gene deregulations in FASN silenced retinoblastoma cancer cells: molecular and clinico-pathological correlations.,” J. Cell. Biochem., vol. 116, no. 11, pp. 2676–94, Nov. 2015.


• Pandey, S. Balekudaru, R. George, V. Lingam, and M. Panday, “Surgical Management of Glaucoma in Sturge-Weber Syndrome.” Glaucoma: Open Access Received date: September 15, 2015; Accepted date: October 31, 2015; Published date: November 10, 2015


• H. Sharma, S. Sudharshan, L. Therese, M. Agarwal, and J. Biswas, “Candida albicans scleral abscess in a HIV-positive patient and its successful resolution with antifungal therapy-a first case report.,” J. Ophthalmic Inflamm. Infect., vol. 6, no. 1, p. 24, Dec. 2015.


• S. Ambika, M. Balasubramanian, L. Theresa, A. Veeraputhiran, and D. Arjundas, “Aquaporin 4 antibody [NMO Ab] status in patients with severe optic neuritis in India.,” Int. Ophthalmol., vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 801–6, Dec. 2015.


• D. Lakshmipathy, L. T. Kulandai, G. Ramasubban, M. Hajib Narahari Rao, S. Rathinam, and M. Narasimhan, “Nested reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reactions targeting the messenger RNA of icl2, hspx, and rRNAP1 genes to detect viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from clinical specimens.,” Int. J. mycobacteriology, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 312–7, Dec. 2015.


• B. Mukherjee, O. Priyadarshini, S. Ramasubramanian, and S. Agarkar, “Iatrogenic Injury to Medial Rectus After Endoscopic Sinus Surgery.,” Indian J. Otolaryngol. Head Neck Surg., vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 394–402, Dec. 2015.


• Murugan N, Malathi J, Umashankar V, Madhavan HN. “Resistome and pathogenomics of multidrug resistant (MDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa VRFPA03, VRFPA05 recovered from alkaline chemical keratitis and post-operative endophthalmitis patient”. Gene. 2016 Mar 1;578(1):105-11. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2015.12.022. Epub 2015 Dec 10.


• J. J. González-López, A. Lavric, P. Dutta Majumder, N. Bansal, J. Biswas, C. Pavesio, and R. Agrawal, “Bilateral Posterior Scleritis: Analysis of 18 Cases from a Large Cohort of Posterior Scleritis.,” Ocul. Immunol. Inflamm., vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 16–23, 2016.


• Lavric, J. J. Gonzalez-Lopez, P. D. Majumder, N. Bansal, J. Biswas, C. Pavesio, and R. Agrawal, “Posterior Scleritis: Analysis of Epidemiology, Clinical Factors, and Risk of Recurrence in a Cohort of 114 Patients.,” Ocul. Immunol. Inflamm., vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 6–15, 2016.


• G. Narayanan, R. Saravanan, M. Bharathselvi, J. Biswas, and K. N. Sulochana, “Localization of Human Copper Transporter 1 in the Eye and its Role in Eales Disease.,” Ocul. Immunol. Inflamm., pp. 1–6, Jan. 2016.


• Kanwar JR, Kamalapuram SK, Krishnakumar S, Kanwar RK. Multimodal iron oxide (Fe(3)O(4))- “ saturated lactoferrin nanocapsules as nanotheranostics for real-time imaging and breast cancer therapy of claudin-low, triple-negative” (ER(-)/PR(-)/HER2(-)). Nanomedicine (Lond). 2016 Jan 20.


• Kalmodia S, Vandhana S, Tejaswini Rama BR, Jayashree B, Sreenivasan Seethalakshmi T, Umashankar V, Yang W, Barrow CJ, Krishnakumar S, Elchuri SV.‘Bio-conjugation of antioxidant peptide on surface-modified gold nanoparticles: a novel approach to enhance the radical scavenging property in cancer cell’. Cancer Nanotechnol. 2016;7:1. Epub 2016 Feb 9.


• N. Shrirao, B. Mukherjee, S. Krishnakumar, and J. Biswas, “Cholesterol granuloma: a case series & review of literature.,” Graefe’s Arch. Clin. Exp. Ophthalmol. Albr. von Graefes Arch. für Klin. und Exp. Ophthalmol., vol. 254, no. 1, pp. 185–8, Jan. 2016.


• E. Rishi, M. V Govindarajan, J. Biswas, M. Agarwal, S. Sudharshan, and P. Rishi, “Syphilitic uveitis as the presenting feature of HIV.,” Indian J. Ophthalmol., vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 149–50, Feb. 2016.


• N. Venkatesan, J. Kanwar, P. R. Deepa, V. Khetan, T. M. Crowley, R. Raguraman, G. Sugneswari, P. Rishi, V. Natarajan, J. Biswas, and S. Krishnakumar, “Clinico-Pathological Association of Delineated miRNAs in Uveal Melanoma with Monosomy 3/Disomy 3 Chromosomal Aberrations.,” PLoS One, vol. 11, no. 1, p. e0146128, 2016.


• V. Gopakumar, Nivedita Chatterjee, Sowmya Parameswaran, Subramanian Nirmala , Subramanian Krishnakumar, “In vitro transdifferentiation of human skin keratinocytes to corneal epithelial cells” Cytotherapy, 2016; 18: 673–685


• T. Das, A. Aurora, J. Chhablani, A. Giridhar, A. Kumar, R. Raman, M. Nagpal, R. Narayanan, S. Natarajan, K. Ramasamay, M. Tyagi, and L. Verma, “Evidence-based review of diabetic macular edema management: Consensus statement on Indian treatment guidelines,” Indian J. Ophthalmol., vol. 64, no. 1, p. 14, 2016.


• L. Gella, R. Raman, and T. Sharma, “Quantitative spectral domain optical coherence tomography thickness parameters in type II diabetes,” Oman J. Ophthalmol., vol. 9, no. 1, p. 32, 2016.


• P. Patil-Chhablani, S. Murthy, and M. Swaminathan, “Ophthalmic profile and systemic features of pediatric facial nerve palsy,” J. Eye Sci., vol. 1, no. 1, 2016.


• R. Raman, L. Gella, S. Srinivasan, and T. Sharma, “Diabetic retinopathy: An epidemic at home and around the world,” Indian J. Ophthalmol., vol. 64, no. 1, p. 69, 2016.


• Bindu Salim, Swapna Merlin David, Madhu Beta, Janakiraman Narayanan, Subramanian Krishnakumar and Thalakkotur Lazar Mathew “PMMA Platform Based Micro Fluidic Mixer for the Detection of MicroRNA- 18a from Retinoblastoma Serum”, Journal of Analytical & Bio-analytical Techniques, 2015, Vol:6, Issue 4, 1000258.


• N. Subramanian, B. Akilandeswari, A. Bhutra, M. Alameen, U. Vetrivel, V. Khetan, R. K. Kanwar, J. R. Kanwar, S. Krishnakumar, et. al “Targeting CD44, ABCG2 and CD133 markers using aptamers: in silico analysis of CD133 extracellular domain 2 and its aptamer,” RSC Adv., vol. 6, no. 38, pp. 32115–32123, 2016.


• N. Shrirao, B. Mukherjee, S. Krishnakumar, and J. Biswas, “Cholesterol granuloma: a case series & amp; review of literature.,” Graefe’s Arch. Clin. Exp. Ophthalmol. Albr. von Graefes Arch. für Klin. und Exp. Ophthalmol., vol. 254, no. 1, pp. 185–8, Jan. 2016.


• G. Narayanan, R. Saravanan, M. Bharathselvi, J. Biswas, and K. N. Sulochana, “Localization of Human Copper Transporter 1 in the Eye and its Role in Eales Disease,” Ocul. Immunol. Inflamm., pp. 1–6, Jan. 2016.


• P. K. Athyala, J. R. Kanwar, M. Alameen, R. K. Kanwar, S. Krishnakumar, J. Watson, U. Vetrivel, and J. Narayanan, “Probing the biophysical interaction between Neocarzinostatin toxin and EpCAM RNA aptamer.,” Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., vol. 469, no. 2, pp. 257–62, Jan. 2016.


• Vimalin Jeyalatha, Malathi Jambulingam, Madhavan N Hajib. Stepwise Protocol for Cytospin-enhanced Smearing for Scraped Corneal Epithelial Cells. Applied Immunohistochemistry Molecular Morphology.2016;24:71-7


• R. Roy and K. Saurabh, “Bilateral acute ophthalmic artery occlusion in a case of giant cell arteritis.,” Indian J. Med. Res., vol. 143, no. 1, pp. 116–7, Jan. 2016.


• P. K. Shah, S. Sripriya, V. Narendran, and A. J. Pandian, “Prenatal genetic diagnosis of retinoblastoma and report of RB1 gene mutation from India,” Ophthalmic Genet., pp. 1–4, Feb. 2016.


• E. Rishi, M. V Govindarajan, J. Biswas, M. Agarwal, S. Sudharshan, and P. Rishi, “Syphilitic uveitis as the presenting feature of HIV.,” Indian J. Ophthalmol., vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 149–50, Feb. 2016.


• Neha Goel, Atul Kumar, Mahesh P Shanmugam, Muna Bhende, Raja Narayanan, Hidetaka Matsumoto, “Thinking Beyond Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration,” Delhi J. Ophthalmol., vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 210–217, Mar. 2016.


• N. Murugan, J. Malathi, V. Umashankar, and H. N. Madhavan, “Resistome and pathogenomics of multidrug resistant (MDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa VRFPA03, VRFPA05 recovered from alkaline chemical keratitis and post-operative endophthalmitis patient.,” Gene, vol. 578, no. 1, pp. 105–11, Mar. 2016.

BOOK PUBLISHED :

• “Uveitis: An Update” Biswas J, Parthopratim Dutta Majumder, by Springer, 2015.


• “Diabetic Retinopathy Management Manual 2015” Taraprasad Das, Rajiv Raman, R Rajalakshmi, Padmaja K Rani, by National Programme for Control of Blindness.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS PUBLISHED :

• Angayarkanni N, K. Coral, SR. Bharathidevi, “Toxicology” in Dr.Santhanam’S Text book of occupational optometry , First Edition, Sankara Nethralaya , 2015 pp 219-39


• Tarun Sharma, Rajiv Raman “Microincision Vitrectomy Surgery: The Answer to Manage Complications of Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy” in Diabetes Clinical Case Series - 1”, by Jaypee Brothers


• Meenakshi S, Srikanth R “Ophthalmology” in Partha’s Management Protocols in Pediatric and Adolescent Practice by Jaypee Brothers.

• Dr S S Badrinath and Dr Vasanthi Badrinath were felicitated at the meeting of the Advanced Vitreo Retinal Techniques and Technology 2014 (AVRT 2014), Ahmedabad for their valuable contributions to the development of “Retina Vitreous Specialty” in India and projecting the capabilities in the international arena.


• In its pursuit of excellence, Jagadguru Kanchi Sri Chandrasekarendra Nethra Nilayam, was awarded India’s most coveted “Accreditation for Hospitals and Health Care Providers” by National Board of Accreditation for Hospitals (NABH).


• NABH recognition was renewed for Sankara Nethralaya for its outstanding compliance with the stringent national and international standards aimed towards patient safety and delivery of Quality Health Care.


• Dr. V. Umashankar was selected as a Member, Board of Studies for Bioinformatics, University of Madras, 2014.


• Sankara Nethralaya Referral Laboratory is the first private laboratory in Chennai to be recognized by Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) for performing TB culture and first line Drug susceptibility testing under Central TB Division, Government of India.


• Dr L Vijaya was selected as the Associate Editor of the BMC Ophthalmology Journal.


• Dr. Ronnie George was elected as the Member of Editorial Board, Asia Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology.


• Dr. Abhilasha Maheshwari, won the “Divya Chaturvedi Gold Medal Award’ for the outstanding performance on the paper “Sub-speciality of uveitis and inflammatory diseases”, in the Diplomate National Board of Examination held in April 2014


• Dr. C. Subbulakshmi was awarded the Travel grant from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology for attending the ARVO Conference, USA held on 6th May 14.


• Dr. Rajeswari Mahadevan received the International Association of Contact Lens Educators award of the year for the Asia pacific region at the ‘British Contact Lens Association Clinical Conference & Exhibition at Birmingham, UK on 7th June 2014.


• Ms. A V Saijyothi was awarded the Ph.D. degree at BITS, Pilani on 11th June 2014 for the thesis entitled, “Proteomic profiling of tear fluid for potential biomarker discovery in Dry Eye Syndrome”.


• The Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) conducted its FRCS-Ophthalmology examinations in the country after a gap of 10 years and chose Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai as its preferred centre for conducting its examinations in India.


• Dr Pukhraj Rishi received the “Nataraj Pillai Best Free Paper Award 2014” in Sankara Nethralaya Alumni Silver Jubilee Meet held from 12th to 13th July 2014.


• Dr T S Surendran received the prestigious “Dr S.S. Badrinath Medal of Honor” for the year 2015, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of Ophthalmology at the Tamil Nadu Ophthalmic Association - TNOA Conference, held at Madurai on 24th July 2014.


• Mr. N Murugan was awarded Travel fellowship for attending the IERG–ARVO Conference held at Hyderabad from 26th to 27th July 2014.


• Ms. A R Rajalakshmi was awarded Travel fellowship for attending the IERG–ARVO Conference held at Hyderabad from 26th to 27th July 2014.


• All India Management Association (AIMA), the apex body for Management Professionals, honoured Dr. S. S. Badrinath with the title ‘Outstanding Institution Builder’ in its highly prestigious ‘Managing India Awards’- 2014 on 6th August 2014 at New Delhi.


• Dr. Bipasha Mukherjee received the Best Paper Award for “Efficacy of oral propranolol in periocular capillary hemangiomas of infancy” in the Tamil Nadu Ophthalmic Association Conference (TNOA) held at Coimbatore from 08th to 10th August 2014.


• Dr Geetha Iyer was listed as a “Distinguished Surgeon” in the Boston K Pro Magazine in recognition of her stupendous efforts.


• The Terry Fox Foundation of Canada conducts the ‘Terry Fox Run- A Marathon of Hope’ the world over to raise funds for cancer research and treatment. This august body chose Sankara Nethralaya as the beneficiary of its assistance for the year 2014.


• Dr. Rathini Lillian David received the “Best Paper Award” for the paper entitled “Trans Laminar Cribrosa pressure difference and glaucoma in a population based study” at the 24th Annual Conference of the Glaucoma Society of India held at Bhubaneswar from 12th to 14th September 2014.


• Dr S Sudharshan received the “Eye Health Leader Award 2014” for the recently developed Mobile Eye Surgical Unit (MESU) at the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) Conference held at Paris between 19th and 23rd September 2014.


• Ms. D. Sudha received the Swarnalatha Punshi Award for Best Research in Basic Science for the year 2014 at the 26th Graduation Ceremony of Sankara Nethralaya held at Sri. V.D. Swami Auditorium on 3rd October 2014.


• Dr. M Sowmiya received the Prof. S. Krishnamoorthy Rao Gold Medal for the year 2014, for the Outstanding Ph.D Student Award at the 26th Graduation Ceremony of Sankara Nethralaya held at Sri. V.D. Swami Auditorium on 3rd October 2014.


• Ms. M. K. Janani received the Young Woman Scientist Award in memory of Smt. Sreerangamma N. Narayan and Smt. Radhamani N. Anantha for the year 2014 at the 26th Graduation Ceremony of Sankara Nethralaya held at Sri. V.D. Swami Auditorium on 3rd October 2014.


• Dr. K. Lily Therese received a medal for the Best Published Paper in Bacteriology entitled “Diagnostic appraisal of simultaneous application of two nested PCRs targeting MPB64 gene and IS6110 region for rapid detection of M. tuberculosis genome in culture proven clinical specimens” in the Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology for the year 2013, presented at the IAMM National Conference conducted at Jaipur from 17th to 19th October 2014.


• The highly prestigious “The Week-Nielsen” survey declared Sankara Nethralaya as the “Best Hospital in Ophthalmology” once again. The survey was conducted on stringent quality measures by experts, covering 15 cities from September to October 2014.


• Dr. S. Krishnakumar received the “10 years of Academic Partnership” Award on behalf of Sankara Nethralaya, from its Collaborative research partner Deakin University, Australia, on 9th November 2014, at New Delhi.


• Ms. M Sukanya received Best Poster award for “Spectroscopic characterization of G quadruplex structures in microRNA promoter region” in RSC Symposium Series held at IIT Madras in November 2014.


• Ms. Sarika Gopalakrishnan was honoured as a ‘Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry’ at the AAO Meeting 2014 held at Denver, USA from 12th to 15th November 2014. She received the prestigious award from Dr. Brett G. Bence, President, AAO.


• Ms. Jameel Rizwana received The Vision Care Institute’s Student Travel Grant Award at the AAO Meeting 2014 held at Denver, USA from 12th to 15th November 2014.


• Dr Rupak Roy received the “Best Poster Award” for “Retinal detachment (RD) in Morning Glory Syndrome (MGS): Providing proof of concept”, at the 45th Annual Conference of Ophthalmology Society of West Bengal held at Kolkata on 20th & 21st November 2014.


• Dr. S. S. Badrinath was honored with the “Life Time Achievement Award” at the Conference of Vitreo Retina Society of India (VRSI) held between 5th and 7th December 2014 at Agra.


• Dr. Parveen Sen received the Best Poster Award for “Treatment outcomes of reduced fluence photodynamic therapy with Intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor in Polypoidal choroidal vasculopa”, at the Conference of Vitreo Retina Society of India (VRSI) held from 5th to 7th December 2014 at Agra.


• Dr. T. S. Surendran was honoured with the “Life Time Achievement Award” by the Strabismus & Pediatric Ophthalmic Society of India at the Annual Conference held on 14th December 2014 at Pushkar, Rajasthan.


• Dr. S Meenakshi received Prof. AK Khurana Award for the Best Publication of 2014 for the paper entitled ”Results of Bilateral Medial Rectus Recession for Comitant Esotropia in Patients with Developmental Delay” at the Annual Conference of Strabismus and Pediatric Ophthalmology Society of India, held at Pushkar, Rajasthan on 14th December 2014.


• Dr L Vijaya received the LC Dutta Award 2015 for Best Publication in Ophthalmology at the All India Ophthalmic Society (AIOS) Conference at New Delhi held from 4th to 7th February 2015.


• Dr. Rajiv Raman received the Silver Award for the Best Paper entitled “Foveal slope measurements in subjects with high risk of age related macular degeneration” at the 73rd Annual Conference of All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS) held at New Delhi from 3rd to 8th February 2015.


• Dr. Jyotirmay Biswas was awarded the “The best paper read at the UVEA session” for the paper entitled “Polymerase chain reaction of intraocular fluid for mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB)” at the 73rd Annual Conference of All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS) held at New Delhi from 3rd to 8th February 2015.


• Dr S.Ambika was awarded the “D. Athawale Award” for the paper entitled “Diffusion weighted imaging - A predictor of visual outcome in acute optic neuritis” at the 73rd Annual Conference of All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS) held at New Delhi from 3rd to 8th February 2015.


• Dr. Nishat Bansal received the E.T Selvam Award for Best Poster presented on “Peripheral Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy – A case series” at the 73rd Annual Conference of All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS) held at New Delhi from 3rd to 8th February 2015.


• Dr. S. Ambika received the Best Poster Award at the ICTRIMS-2015 Seminar held under the aegis of the Indian Academy of Neurology and the Madras Neuro Trust on the 14th and 15th of February 2015.

• Dr.T S Surendran appointed as Consultant, Pediatric Ophthalmologist for USIS (United States of Information Services) Consulate staff children.


• Dr. Muna Bhande & team written a Second Edition of “Atlas of Ophthalmic Ultrasound and Ultrasound Biomicroscopy” published by Jaypee Brothers.


• Sankara Nethralaya - Elite School of Optometry (ESO) received the Limca National Record on 15.04.2014. ESO set a Limca record on World Sight Day - 8th October, 2012. The most number of vision screenings for 8,469 school children was conducted by ESO in 38 different schools between 8.30am to 4.30pm. The screening was done as a three-phased protocol including diagnosing refractive errors, prescription generation and diagnosis if eye ailments.


• Dr. H. N. Madhavan recognized as the “PIONEER MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGIST IN INDIA” for the detection of infection agents in the clinical specimens by the Centre for Disease Control (CDC), Atlanta, USA.


• Dr. J. Biswas received Dr. Narsing Rao Gold Medal in Uvea session at the All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS) Conference held from 6th to 9th February 2014 for the paper presentation on “Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) of intraocular fluid for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (MTB) in various types of choroiditis in a referral eye centre in India”.


• Dr. S. Ambika received the Best Paper Award “Diffusion weighted imaging a predictor of visual outcome in acute optic neuritis” at the All India Ophthalmological Society Meeting held between 6th and 9th February 2014.


• Dr. Rajiv Raman received the Silver Award for Best paper “Foveal slope measurements in subjects with high risk of age related macular degeneration at the All India Ophthalmological Society Meeting held between 6th and 9th February 2014.


• Dr M. Y. S. Prasad (Distinguished Scientist & Director Satish Dhawan Space Centre, (SHAR) Sriharikota) inaugurated the Sri City Sankara Nethralaya on 14th April 2013, at Tada.


• Ms. Selvi received the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Award for her thesis “In vitro Studies on the Mechanism of Glucose Lowering Effect of Amino Acids in CHO-K1 & Adipocytes cell lines and In vivo Studies on the Amelioration of Molecular Changes in Retina of Streptozotocin Induced Diabetic Sprague Dawley Rats” on 16th April 2013 at BITS, Pilani.


• Dr. Tarun Sharma received the “Dr Sudha Sutaria Vitreoretinal Oration Award” at the Vidarbha Ophthalmic Society Meeting held on 6th & 7th April 2013 at Nagpur. He gave a presentation in ”Management of Diabetic Macular Edema”


• Dr. R. Gayathri received the Prof. S. Krishnamoorthy Rao Award (Gold Modal) for her outstanding PhD thesis “Molecular technique to detect and identification of multi drug resistant tuberculosis” on 7th May 2013 at Sankara Nethralaya.


• Ms. M. Sowmiya, received the Doctor of Philosophy Award for her PhD thesis “Standardization and Application of Molecular Techniques for the Detection of Drug Resistance Exhibited by Bacterial Pathogens Isolated from Ocular Clinical Specimens” on 10th May 2013 at BITS, Pilani.


• Dr. Meenakshi received Dr Badrinath Medal of Honor for Excellence of Academic activities at the Tamil Nadu Ophthalmic Association (TNOA) Conference held from 9th to 11th- August 2013.


• Ms. Jaisy Samuel received a travel grant of $1200 and waiver of registration fee for attending the International Society for Genetic Eye Diseases and Retinoblastoma, (ISGEDR) Meeting at Ghent, Belgium from 22nd to 24th August, 2013


• Mr. Y. Samson Moses received the “Doctor of Philosophy Award” for his PhD thesis “Application of Molecular methods in detection of mutation in UL23 gene of HSV and UL97 gene of Human Cytomegalovirus for drug resistance and evaluation of pp65” held on 18th September 2013 in “Tapovan” Chinmaya Heritage Center, Chennai.


• Dr. S. S. Badrinath received the ‘Doyen of Madras’ award in recognition of his selfless service to the society from the Ambassador Group of Hotels, Chennai on 29th September 2013.


• Ms. A. Shabna received the Swarnalatha Punshi Award for Best Research in Basic science for the year 2013.


• Dr.J.Subbu Lakshmi, Ms. Karthikka, Ms. Suganya, Mr. Sanket, Ms. Mangalangi.U, Ms. Sudha , Ms. Vinithakumari, Ms. Sushma Kalmodia, Ms. Nithya, Mr. Gopinath, Ms. M. Vimalin Jeyalatha, Ms. A. Shabna and Mr. N. Murugan, Research Scientists received the Travel grant of Rs.10,000/- each for attending Asia ARVO Conference at New Delhi from 28th to 31th October 2013.


• Dr. N. Soumittra, Mr. C. Sanket Dhirubhai , Mr. Sivasankar S, Ms. Vinitha Kumari, Ms. K.Sudha, Ms. Srilekha, received the Best paper Award in “Asia ARVO” Conference conducted at New Delhi 28th to 31th October 2013.


• Dr J.Biswas, Mr. Gopinath, Mr. Anand Babu K, Dr. J. Subbulakshmi, Dr. J. Biswas, Ms. N. Srikrupa received the Best Poster Award in “Asia ARVO” Conference held at New Delhi 28th to 31th October 2013.


• American Academy of Optometrists awarded Ms Jameel Rizwana Hussain “Fellow of the Academy” for her thesis tilted “Factors influencing visual acuity outcome in the amblyopic eye and fellow eye in unilateral amblyopia” & poster on “Near point of convergence assessed using accommodative target and penlight with red/green filter in normal subjects and in Convergence insufficiency”, on 26th October 2013, USA


• Ms. Karthikka won the lucky draw in the ASIA ARVO Conference at New Delhi for FREE REGISTRATION for attending ARVO 2014 Conference at USA.


• Ms. L. Dhanurekha, received the Young Woman Scientist Award in memory of Smt. Sreerangamma N. Narayan and Smt. Radhamani N. Anantha for the year 2013 at Sri. V.D. Swami Auditorium, Kamal Nayan Bajaj Research Centre on 6th November 2013.


• Dr Sripriya Krishnamurthy received 2013 ACOIN award for Community Ophthalmology Program at the Association of Community Ophthalmologists of India meet held at Bhubaneswar from 9th to 10th November 2013.


• Dr J.Biswas received “Dr Samir Kumar Biswas Memorial Oration Gold Model Award”, at the West Bengal Ophthalmological Society Meeting held at West Bengal on 21st November 2013.


• Dr. K. Coral received B.S. Narasinga Rao Best Poster Award for “Association of Copper in human retina and choroid in Age Related Macular Degeneration” at the 82nd Annual Meeting of Society of Biological Chemists (India), 03rd December 2013, University of Hyderabad


• NDTV celebrated turning 25 years in December 2013 by honouring 25 leading Indians who have reached the pinnacle in their respective field, contributed to the society and left an indelible mark on the sands of time. NDTV honoured our Chairman – Emeritus, Dr. S S Badrinath, with the title “Greatest Global Indian Living Legend” for his significant ‘Contribution to Medicine’. Our First Citizen of the Nation, Honourable President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, presented the awards at Rashtrapathi Bhavan, New Delhi on 14th December 2013.


• Sankara Nethralaya received the “Best Single Specialty Hospital – Ophthalmology” at the very prestigious CNBC TV18's India Healthcare Awards presented by ICICI Lombard on 23rd December 2013 at New Delhi.


• Dr. Subbulakshmi J received the International Travel Fellowship Award from Dept. of Science & Technology, for attending ARVO 2014 Conference at Florida, USA.


• Dr. K. N. Sulochana received the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) International Fellowship Award of Rs.88, 900/- for the ARVO 2013 Conference held at USA in May 2013.


• Dr. Angarkanni N awarded the travel grant of Rs. 60,000/- for the ARVO 2013 Conference at USA under DBT CTEP Travel scheme.


• The book launch of the ‘Atlas of Imaging in Ophthalmology’ co-authored by Dr S. Ambika, Director, Neuro-Ophthalmology Department, Vision Research Foundation, Dr.Veena Noronha, Consultant Radiologist and Dr. Padmaja Minakshisundaram, Neuro-Ophthalmologist was held at the Sri VD.Swami Auditorium, Sankara Nethralaya on 8th January 2014. Dr G. Arjundas, Professor Emeritus, Madras Medical College, Chief Guest of the function and the other eminent Neuro- surgeons Dr Suresh Bapu, Dr. Balamurugan, Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai, Dr Siddharth Ghosh, Oncologist from Kharaghpur and Dr Smitha Vittal attended the function.


• Dr. Rajeswari Mahadevan received the “IACLE Contact Lens Educator of the Year” award for the Asia Pacific Region Conference on 1st March 2014.


• Dr Rajeswari was honored ‘Fellow of the Scleral Lens Education Society’ for specialty in scleral lens fitting. The Scleral Lens Education Society specializes in imparting knowledge and training to Contact Lens Practitioners in the science and art of fitting sclera lenses for corneal transplants and Ocular Surface disorders.


• THE FIFTH Patent Certificate granted to the patentee Vision Research Foundation by the Patent office Chennai, Government of India for an invention entitled “Method for simultaneous detection and discrimination of Bacterial, Fungal, Parasitic and Viral Infections of eye and central nervous system” Patent No.: US 8,465,951 B2 in accordance with the provisions of the Patents Act 1970. The inventors are Chintalagiri Mohan Rao, Ikunchala Sridhar Rao, Puppala Venkat Ramchander, H. N. Madhavan, Savitri Sharma, Gita Satpathy, Venkata Banda Ravi Kumar.

• Dr. J Biswas was elected as a Member of American Uveitis Society on 5th May 2012.


• Ms. Nithya received the Best Poster Award at the World Congress on Biotechnology Conference held at Hyderabad on 5th May 2012. Target specific delivery of Doxorubicin to retinoblastoma using EpCAM Aptamer


• Dr Jaiachandran V V, received Best Free Paper Award for “A Novel way of teaching Orbital blocks- Eye POD (Practicing Orbital Device)” at World Congress of Ophthalmic Anesthesia – WCOA 2012, Turkey held on 24th & 25th May 2012.


• Dr. J. Biswas was honored the Dr. R.H.P Sinha Gold Medal Oration Award in the 1st Joint Mid-Term Conference of Bihar and Jharkhand Ophthalmological Societies Conference on 3rd June, 2012 at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.


• Ms. Sushma Kalmodia was awarded the International Travel Fellowship by the Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi, for attending Gordon Research Conference on Noble Metal Nanoparticles at South Hadley ,USA, from 17th to 22nd June 2012.


• Dr. L Vijaya received “Paul Harris Fellow” award from Rotary club of Madras Fort & Rotary Club of Singapore at Sankara Eye Hospital, Chennai, on 20th July 2012.


• Ms Rashima A received the ‘Ruby Banik Memorial Award’ of Vision Research Foundation for the Best Research in Clinical Sciences in Ophthalmology for the year 2011-12.


• Ms. R. Selvi, received the Swarnalatha Punshi Award for Best Research in Basic Sciences for the year 2011 - 12.


• Dr.J.Malathi received The Best Poster Award on “A study on an epidemic of acute keratoconjunctivitis in Chennai: Isolation of a variant human adenovirus identified based on phylogenetic analysis” at SRM Medical College Hospital & Research Centre, Chennai on 29th September 2012.


• Dr. Pramod S Bhende received the Gold Medal for Excellence in Ophthalmology & Vitreoretinal surgeries at the 9th Annual Ophthalmic State Conference, Uttarkhand, from 26th to 28th October 2012.


• Ms A. R. Rajalakshmi & Ms. A. Shabna received IERG-ARVO-IC-2012 Travel Fellowships to attend the ARVO IERG conference.


• Dr. H. N. Madhavan received Prof. S. Subramanian Oration Award (2012) delivered a guest lecture on a topic entitled “Insights into the molecular virological methods” held on 9th and 10th November 2012 at CLRI, Chennai.


• Dr.S.S.Badrinath received the “Sat Paul Mittal National Award” for rendering outstanding service to the humanity on 17.11.2012 at Ludhiana.


• Dr. J. Subbulakshmi received the Best Poster Award for the poster presentation “Construction and validation of a trilayer model for human outer blood retinal barrier” at Society of Biological Chemists at Kolkata on 11th November 2012.


• Mr. Anand Babu K received B.S. Narasinga Rao Best Poster award on “Does OxLDL, Homocysteine and Homocysteine thiolactone influence the PON expression in AMD?” at the Society of Biological Chemists Meet at Kolkata on 11th November 2012.


• Dr. S. S. Badrinath received the Life Time Achievement Award 2012 at TiEcon, Chennai on 3rd December 2012.


• Dr.T.S.Surendran received the “Excellence Award” for contributions to Strabismus at Strabismus Society of India Conference held at Rohtak on 1st December 2012.


• Dr. S Meenakshi received “Excellence Award” for contributions to Strabismus at Strabismus Society of India Conference in Rohtak on 1st December 2012.


• Dr. Sudha K Genesh elected as the President of Uveitis Society of India at 12th Annual Meeting of Uveitis Society of India at Bhubaneswar on 1st to 3rd December 2012.


• Dr Jayachandran received “Dr KOP’S” award for conducting the Ophthalmic Forum at 60th Annual National Conference of Indian Society of Anesthesiologists, at Indore on 29th December 2012.


• Dr. H. N. Madhavan and the team received the Dr. V. L. Dutt (Chairman, Chennai Willington Corporate Foundation) has personally gifted a high end Computer work station (compatible with Ion Torrent Machine to store and analyze the data generated using high end soft wares) in appreciation of the Research team of L & T Microbiology Research Centre’s contribution on the “MDR TB PROJECT” funded by Chennai Willington Corporate Foundation.


• Dr Shikha Bassi received “S.D Athawale Award” for Best Paper presentation on “Optical Coherence Tomography in papilledema & pseudo papilledema with and without disc drusen” at AIOS 2013, Hyderabad, held between 17th and 20th January 2013.


• Dr L Vijaya received ‘Healthcare Leadership’ award on behalf of Dr S S Badrinath for his dynamic leadership and significant role and critical contribution to the delivery of better patient care in India at the India Research and Innovation Science Meeting held at Mumbai, on 27th January 2013.


• Mrs. Janani received the Best Paper Award on “Real time PCR and PCR based genotyping of Epstein-Barr virus in pediatric transplant recipients” at the 1st Annual Meeting of the Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists, Salem on 2nd February 2013


• Dr.Bipasha P Mukherjee was inducted as the visiting volunteer faculty of Orbis organization as a specialist surgeon.


• Dr. Subbulakshmi received the “Max Planck-India Fellowship”. It is jointly funded by Max Planck Society, Germany and DST, India (2013-2016).

• Dr. S S Badrinath received the “Seva Rathna” Award from Srirangan Srimad Andavan Asramam on 10th April 2011. This award was presented in recognition of his relentless battle to eradicate blindness, his leadership and pioneering role in providing quality and affordable eye care and spearheading India-centric research in ophthalmology.


• Dr. Tarun Sharma received the International Scholar Award 2011 from The American Academy of Ophthalmology, USA.


• Dr S Bhaskaran received “Life-time Achievement Award” in medicine from the Tamil Nadu Dr M.G.R University, Chennai.


• Dr T S Surendran was awarded as “The Best Doctor“ by The Tamil Nadu Dr M.G.R University Chennai.


• Dr J Biswas was presented Dr R V Rajam Gold Medal award by The National Academy of Medical Sciences.


• Dr. Shubhra Goel Co-authored Best Poster Presentation on Asthenopic Factors in Computer Users at the American Academy of Opthalmology, Florida, USA, 2011


• Ms. M. Sowmiya, Junior Scientist, received the “VRF - IAMM Best paper award” for her research paper entitled “Prevalence of Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL) producing and integrons carrying Gram negative bacilli belonging to Enterobacteriaceae among Ocular isolates - A hospital based study” during the CME programme on “Ocular infections 2011” conducted on 23rd July 2011 organised by Department of Microbiology, Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai as part of IAMM - TN & Pondicherry chapter meet.


• Dr. V. Umashankar delivered an invited talk on “Genotype to phenotype analysis of SNPs” at IERG 2011 Conference held at Hyderabad from 29th to 31st July 2011.


• Ms. M. K. Janani received the travel fellowship grant to attend the Indian Eye Research Group (IERG) meeting to be held at L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad from 29th July - 31st July 2011.


• Dr. Angayarkanni received the Swarnalatha Punshi Award for the Best Research Paper in Basic Sciences on 5th September 2011.


• Dr B Shantha received the ‘Ruby Banik Memorial Award’ of Vision Research Foundation for the best research in clinical sciences in ophthalmology for the year 2010-11.


• Ms.S.Srilekha received Bangalore Genei Pvt. Ltd. Endowment award in September 2011.


• Ms.S.Srilekha received the Best outgoing student award along with six other awards for her outstanding academics in the BITS MSMLT course, in September 2011.


• Ms Rashima A received award for Best Paper in 10th Dr. E V Memorial Scientific Session Aug 2011.


• Dr. KN Sulochana was awarded Prof Venugopal Manon Endowment Award by Annamalai University, Chidambaram in the year 2011.


• Dr. Parveen Rewri, Clinical & Research fellow in glaucoma got the first prize in the free paper session at GSI 2011, Oct at Mumbai


• Mr. Jagaveerapandiyan received the Best Poster Award, in Systems Biology at the, SBC(I) Conference held at CIMAP, Lucknow on 13th November 2011.


• Dr. B. Mahalakshmi was awarded the Dr. S.R. Sengupta – Dr. A.M. Saoji Memorial Prize for the Best paper in Immunology 2011, for the paper titled “Evaluation of in house Fluorescent Antinuclear Antibody (FANA) test Using Hep-2 Cells And Commercial ELISA for the detection of Antinuclear Antibodies in Uveitis patients” presented (Oral Presentation) at the XXXV National conference of the IAMM held at Varanasi between 23rd and 26th November 2011.


• Dr. H. N. Madhavan received the “Life time achievement award” for the year 2011 at the XXXV IAMM National Congress conducted at Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi in November 2011.


• Dr.Vikas Khetan received the Travel & Best Paper Award on Anterior Chamber Invasion in RB at the APVRS Meet held at Hyderabad, from 1st to 3rd December 2011


• Dr T S Surendran gave a Guest Lecture on “Strabismus overview and Interesting Cases” at the Twintech University, Malaysia on 14th December 2011.


• Dr. H. N. Madhavan honored with “Dr. Habibullah Memorial Annual Oration Award” during the 8th Annual Conference of STEM - 2012 on Biotechnology - focusing on latest trend in Stem cells, Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering) held at Hyderabad from 31st January - 1st February 2012.


• Dr. J. Biswas attended the AIOC conference at Cochin and received the Honorary Fellowship of All India Collegium of Ophthalmology award on 1st February 2012.


• Dr. S S Badrinath was presented “Life Time Achievement Award” by All India Ophthalmological Society at Cochin on 2nd February 2012.


•  Dr L Vijaya received Platinum IJO Award for Best Paper published in IJO on “Outcome and cataract size in Chennai Glaucoma Study” at AIOS Conference, Cochin, on 2nd February 2012.


• Dr Shikha Rajesh Bassi & Dr. Shweta S Agarwal received the Best Paper Award for “Optical Coherence Tomography in Papilledema and Pseudopapilledema with or without Optic disc drusen” & “The 8 year experience with MOOKP in India - Where do we stand?” respectively at the AIOS Conference held at Cochin on 4th February 2012.


• Dr J Biswas received Honorary Fellowship of All India Ophthalmological Collegium at AIOS, Cochin, 2-Feb-2012.


• Dr Akila Ramkumar V received the Best Paper & Poster Award for “Amblyogenic risk factors in children with CNLDO & Axenfeld rieger anomaly – A rare association with nanophthalmos” in FUSION 2012 held at Hyderabad from 12th to 14th February 2012.


• Dr.Bipasha P Mukherjee co-authored the Best Paper presentation in the Pediatric Ophthalomology Session, Fusion, International Meeting – Pediatric Ophthalmology, Dacryology and Facial Aesthetics held at Hyderabad, 2012.


• Dr. Shubhra Goel was the chief author of Best Video – “No scar ptosis surgery” in the Pediatric Ophthalomology Session, Fusion, International Meeting – Pediatric Ophthalmology, Dacryology and Facial Aesthetics held at Hyderabad, 2012.


• Dr. J. Biswas received the “Bharath Jyoti” award from India International on 27th March 2.

• Dr. S S Badrinath made key note address on “Meet success first” to the fresh entrepreneurs at the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, Chennai on 29th April 2010.


• Dr. N. Angayarkanni received the “ICMR International Fellowship” under young biomedical scientist to spend 3 months at University of New Mexico, Alberquerque, USA from 18th Feb to 17th May 2010.


• Dr. S S Badrinath was felicitated by the Rotary Club of Chennai Galaxy, Chennai, on 27th June 2010.


• Dr. Lingam Gopal was elected as Member of Board of Studies in Research by the Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai.


• The first Patent certificate for Vision Research Foundation granted to Vision Research Foundation by the Patent office Chennai, Government of India for an invention entitled “A Semi nested Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) For Rapid Detection And Specific Identification Of Mycobacterium fortuitum”. The inventors are Dr. K. Lily Therese, Ms. Jasmine Therese and Dr. H.N. Madhavan.


• The second patent granted to Vision Research Foundation by the Patent office Chennai, Government of India, for an invention entitled “A Semi nested Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Method For Rapid Detection And Specific Identification Of Mycobacterium Chelonae”. The inventors are Dr. K. Lily Therese, Ms. Jasmine Therese and Dr. H.N. Madhavan.


• Dr. J Biswas received the AIOS award for “Ophthalmic Tele Pathology Concept and Practice” at the 69th Annual Conference of All India Ophthalmological Society, Ahmedabad held between 3rd and 6th February 2011.


• Limca Book of Records saluted Sankara Nethralaya for extraordinary skill in the field of eye care on 28th June 2010. We are proud to be a part of the Limca Book of Records Family.


• A Monograph authored by Dr. H N Madhavan and Sowmya Parameswaran entitled “Human Cytomegalovirus: Molecular Methods for Diagnosis and study of strain variations” has been published by LAB LAMBERT Academic Publishers, United Kingdom.


• The third Patent Certificate for Vision Research Foundation granted for an invention entitled “A method for Cultivating Cells derived from Corneal Limbal Tissue and Cultivation method using Mebiol gel (Thermoreversible polymer)” provided by Professor Y. Mori of Waseda University Tokyo, Japan” on 14th June 2010. Dr. H. N. Madhavan is the inventor of this patent.


• Dr. Lingam Gopal was the Visiting Scholar of LV Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar from 28th June to 3rd July 2010.


• Ms. R. Gayathri, Ms. M. Sowmiya, Ms. R.Gayathri and Ms. A V Saijyothi received the travel fellowship grant to attend the Indian Eye Research Group (IERG) meeting to be held at L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad from 31st July - 1st August 2010.


• Dr. S S Badrinath was conferred the “Achiever’s Award” for his relentless pursuit in providing quality and affordable eye care to the people of India at the Loyola World Alumni Congress 2010, Chennai on 28th August 2010.


• Dr. T S Surendran was elected as the President of Strabismological Society of India for the second term.


• Dr. H N Madhavan received 4th Patent for the invention of “A multiplex Polymerase chain reaction for rapid detection and specific identification of Cytomegalovirus”. Dr. H. N. Madhavan is the inventor of this patent.


• Dr. K. Coral presented a paper on “Role of homocysteine in vascular diseases” for Swarnalatha Punshi on 21.8.10, Awarded for her research paper for Swarnalatha Punshi at Sanakra Nethralaya.


• Ms. M. Vimalin Jeyalatha received the Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. Immuno Diagnostic Division Endowment award (Clinical Immunology) during the Graduation ceremony held on 13th September 2010.


• Ms. L. Dhanurekha received the Bangalore Genei Pvt. Ltd. Endowment award (Clinical Genetics) during the Graduation ceremony held on 13th September 2010


• Dr. J Biswas received a Gold Medal for his Excellence in Ophthalmology at the Uttarakhand Ophthalmological Society Meet at Dehradun on 22nd October 2010.


• Dr. Lingam Gopal received “Dr C Shekhar Grover Oration Award”-”Intricacies of Vitreoretinal Surgery” at the Uttrakand State Ophthalmological Society Meet held at Dehradun on 24th October 2010.


• Dr. Lingam Goal received the Dr Alexander Gold Medal Oration Award for”Recent Advances in Retinopathy of Prematurity at the Kerala State Ophthalmic Society Meet, Kochi on 27th November 2010.


• Dr. J Biswas was selected as a Member of the Editorial Board of the Peer Reviewed Indexed Journal on Ocular Immunology and Inflammation in November 2010.


• Dr. Lingam Gopal received the “Hayreh Award – 1st Recipient of this Award”-”Management of Retinal Detachment Secondary to Coloboma of the Choroid” at the Annual Conference of Vitreoretinal Society of India held at Mysore from 2nd to 4th December 2010.


• Dr. J Biswas received the Prestigious Fellowship of Indian College of Pathologist (FIC) at the 59th Annual Meeting of Indian Association of Pathologist and Microbiologist, Hyderabad held on 9th December 2010.


• Ms. S. Vidhya received the B.S.Narasinga Rao Award for the Best Poster in the 79th SBCI meeting held at Bangalore from 13-15th Dec 2010


• Dr. S S Badrinath was conferred Doctor of Science Honoris Causa Award by Missouri University, United States on 18th December 2010.


• Dr. Rashmin Gandhi received the CNBC-TV 18’s India Healthcare Awards 2010 for Sankara Nethralaya – The Best Hospital in the country at the function held at Mumbai on 20th December 2010.


• The fourth Patent Certificate granted to the patentee Vision Research Foundation by the Patent office Chennai, Government of India for an invention entitled “A multiplex Polymerase chain reaction for rapid detection and specific identification of Cytomegalovirus”. Dr. H. N. Madhavan is the inventor of this patent.


• Sankara Nethralaya received LIC Awards by Zee TV “Honouring the Healing Hands-Sankara Nethralaya” - A Zee News Initiative.


• Ms. R.Selvi received Travel Grant Fellowship for attending the Asia-ARVO Conference at Singapore Jan 2011.


• Dr. L Vijaya received AIOS Platinum Award 2011 for the IJO Paper Published in 2010 – Outcomes of Surgery in Rural and Urban Population, Chennai Glaucoma Study at the 69th All India Ophthalmological Conference 2011 at Ahmedabadheld between 3rd – 5th February 2011.


• Dr. S S Badrinath received the Public Service Excellence Award – 2010 from All India Management Association on 21st February 2011.


• Dr. Subbulakshmi awarded with a 3 months fellowship from Japanese Society for promotion of Science, (JSPS fellowship) for learning live tissue imaging using 2-photon microscopy at the University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan from 1st Dec to 28th Feb 2011.


• Ms. S. Vidhya received Best Poster Award Runner up in the National Symposium at BITS, Pilani from 12th to 13th March 2011.


• Ms. Iyer Gomathy Narayanan received the Best Poster Award Runner up at the National Symposium at BITS, Pilani from 12th to 13th March 2011.


• Dr. S S Badrinath conferred Lifetime Achievement Award by M V Hospital for Diabetes on 13th March 2011.


• Dr. J Biswas received the Prestigious APAO Achievement Award at the 26th Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology Congress held at Sydney between 20th and 24th March 2011.

• Dr. S S Badrinath made key note address on “Meet success first” to the fresh entrepreneurs at the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, Chennai on 29th April 2010.


• Ms. H. Anusha, Senior Research fellow, won the“VRF - IAMM Best paper award” for her research paper entitled “Phylogenetic analysis of clinical Herpes Simplex Virus 1 isolates targeting 269 nucleotide region within glycoprotein G and 410 nucleotide region within glycoprotein I” in the TN IAMM Local Chapter Meeting on Hospital Acquired Infection at Madurai Medical College, Madurai (HAICON 2009).


• The First Patent Certificate for Vision Research Foundation has been granted to the patentee Vision Research Foundation by the Patent office Chennai, Government of India for an invention entitled “A Seminested Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Method for Rapid Detection and Specific Identification of Mycobacterium fortuitum” on 29th May 2009. The inventors are Dr. K. Lily Therese, Ms. Jasmine Therese and Dr. H.N. Madhavan. This is the first patent received by scientists in Vision Research Foundation.


• Dr. S S Badrinath received the “V Krishnamurthy Award” for Excellence by Centre for Organization Development, Hyderabad, on 4th July 2009.


• Dr. L Vijaya received “Dr Samir Biswas Memorial Oration” by the Ophthalmological Society of West Bengal, Kolkata on 26 July 2009.


• Dr Ian Sunadaraaj, was felicitated on World Anaesthesia Day conducted by Stanley Medical college, Chennai.


• Special recognition award for M.Rajeswari at MRF on August 15th 2009.


• Ms. S. Barathi, was awarded “Swarnalatha Punshi Award” for her paper presentation on “Free amino acid Glycine and Glutamic acid inhibit angiogenesis in Bovine Retinal Endothelial cells” on 3rd September 2009


• Dr Jaichandran was awarded scholarship for the paper titled “Effect of lidocaine warming and alkalinization on injection pain, motor and sensory nerve blockade in peribulbar anesthesia for cataract surgery” presented as a Poster, in the 23rd Annual Ophthalmic Anesthesia Society held at Chicago, Illinois, United states, Sept 11-13, 2009.


• Dr. K. Coral was awarded the Ph.D. Degree in the XXI Graduation ceremony (VIBS, BITS) on 12th Sep 2009


• Dr. H. N Madhavan was presented with the International Medical Excellence Award by the former Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand, Mr. Korn Dabbaransi in at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, on October 8, 2009. Dr. Madhavan was also presented with a “Certificate of Medical Excellence.”


• Dr. Lingam Gopal was Elected as Fellow, National Academy of Medical Sciences and Conferred at the 49th Annual Conference of National Academy of Medical Sciences, NAMSCON – 2009, Lucknow on 31st October 2009.


• Dr Jagadeesh V was invited to give a guest lecture on “Ophthalmic Anaesthesia” to commemorate World Anaesthesia Day at Madras Medical College, Chennai, October 2009.


• Ms. S. Barathi, received B.S. Narasinga Rao Award for a best poster presentation in 78th Annual meeting of Society of Biological Chemists(I) , at Pune on 30th October 2009


• The Second Patent Certificate for Vision Research Foundation has been granted to the patentee Vision Research Foundation by the Patent office Chennai, Government of India for an invention entitled “A Seminested Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Method For Rapid Detection And Specific Identification Of Mycobacterium Chelonae” on 12th November 2009. The inventors are Dr. K. Lily Therese, Ms. Jasmine Therese and Dr. H.N. Madhavan.


• Dr. S S Badrinath received the Life Time Achievement Award from Madras City Ophthalmological Association on 29th November 2009


• Dr. S S Badrinath was the recipient of CNBC TV - 18 India Business Leader Awards at Durbar Hall, Taj Palace Hotel, S P Marg, Diplomatic Enclave, New Delhi, on 3rd December 2009.


• Dr Jagadeesh V was invited to moderate a Pediatric session at ISACON Conference at Chennai Trade Centre between Dec 26-29, 2009.


• Dr. T S Surendran gave a lecture on “Awareness on Eye Diseases”, National University Hospital, Singapore on 7th January 2010


• Dr. T S Surendran gave lecture on “EMR”, at Indian Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong on 8th January 2010


• Dr. S S Badrinath received “Life Time Achievement Award”, by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Chennai, on 20th February 2010


• Dr. T S Surendran gave lecture on strabismus at Shree Ganpathi Netralaya, Jalna on 27 February 2010


• Dr. K. Lily Therese was one of the recipients of “30 Women Alumni Award”, for her contribution in “Molecular Microbiology”, By Madras University, 8 March 2010


• Dr. Lingam Gopal elected as Member, Board of studies in Research, Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai.


• Dr. Tarun Sharma received the International Ophthalmologist Education Award from American Academy of Ophthalmology, USA.


• Dr.S.Sripriya has been recognized as a PhD guide in SASTRA University and BITS, Pilani.


• Ms. E. Anuradha successfully completed the NABL training programme and she is now eligible as an internal auditor for NABL.


• Dr.J.Madhavan completed Health Kids International Fellowship, Hospital for SickKids, Toronto. 2009-2010.


• Ms.Dharanija Madhavan ICMR-junior research fellowship 2009-2010.


• Ms.P. Ferdinamarie Sharmila has qualified the BITs PhD entrance examination


• The doctoral degree was conferred upon Dr. G. Mamatha in the Convocation function, Ms.Dharanija Madhavan & Ms.N.N.Srikrupa has got their MS MLT graduation certificates.


• Dr. J. Biswas received "Dr. P. Siva Reddy Oration Award from All India Ophthalmological society for the year 2009.


• Dr. J. Biswas received AIOS – AWARD (GENERAL OPHTHALMOLOGY) Ophthalmic Telepathology: Concept and Practice-FP9-2010.


• Dr. L Vijaya received Achievement Award 2009 from The American Academy of Ophthalmology, USA.


• Dr. N. Angayarkanni selected for training in Animal model angiogenesis by “ICMR international fellowship” under young biomedical scientist to spend 3 months in Dr. Arup Das lab, University of New Mexico, Alberquerque USA from 18th Feb to 17th May 2010.

• Sankara Nethralaya, the first eye hospital in the world, recognized as a Superbrand by the leading global company dealing with the area of brand recognition and bench marking.


• Ms. Bharathi, Ms. Coral received the partial Travel Grant ARVO 2008, at Fort Lauderdale, USA on 30-31 April ‘08.


• Dr Cheriyan Shane Mathew, DNB Student of Sankara Nethralaya has been awarded DNB Gold Medal for the year 2007.


• Dr T S Surendran has been elected as one of the six founder members of the newly formed Asia Pacific Strabismus and Paediatric Ophthalmic Society (APSCOS) founded in the recently concluded WOC meeting in Hong Kong between 26th June to 2nd July 2008.


• Dr Sripriya Krishnamoorthy was conferred “Dr K S Sanjivi Award 2008” by Confederation of Indian Organizations for Service and Advocacy (CIOSA) and Udhavum Ullangal, Mylapore, Chennai on 6th July 2008.


• Dr S S Badrinath Received The Baroda Sun Life Time Achievement Award by Bank of Baroda Mumbai, on 20th July 2008


• Mr. Y. Samson Moses, Senior Research Fellow received the Travel Fellowship at the IERG Meeting held at Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, on 26th & 27th July 2008.


• Ms Vinita Kumari was granted Travel Fellowship at IERG Meeting held at Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, on 26th & 27th July 2008.


• Dr. Nikhil S Choudhari received Ruby Banik Award, 2008.for the Best Research in Clinical Sciences on 30th August 2008.


• Dr. J. Malathi received the “Swarnalatha Punshi” award for the best research paper from Basic Medical Sciences at a competition held on 30th August 2008.


• Dr. B. Mahalakshmi got second prize for the “Best oral presentation” entitled “Nucleic Acid amplification techniques for detection and Genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii in Clinical specimens from Ocular Toxoplasmosis patients in a Tertiary Eye Hospital, Chennai” during the research meet for the inauguration of KBIRVO between 3rd–5th September 2008.


• Ms. S. Barathi received Best Oral presentation Award presentation in Bajaj International Conference (KBIRVO) at Hotel Park Sheraton, Chennai on 5th Sept 2008.


• Ms. R. Bagyalakshmi, received Ph.D degree on her thesis entitled “Role of nucleic acid based amplification technique in detection, characterisation and species level identification of fungi in clinical specimens and a study of in vitro sensitivity pattern of ocular fungal isolates” under the guidance of Dr. K. Lily Therese (Guide) from BITS, Pilani.


• Ms. G. Shyamala, received Ph.D degree on her thesis entitled “Nucleic Acid based Amplification methods for the detection, Quantification and Characterization of Viruses in Clinical Specimen” under the guidance of Dr. H.N Madhavan (Guide) from BITS, Pilani.


• Ms. B. Mahalakshmi, successfully defended her thesis entitled “Role of Nucleic acid based – molecular biological techniques and evaluation of serological methods in the laboratory diagnosis of ocular toxoplasmosis and genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii ” for Ph.D degree under the guidance of Dr. H.N Madhavan (Guide) from BITS, Pilani.


• Ms. P. Sowmya successfully defended her Ph.D thesis entitled “Nucleic acid based molecular biological methods for quantitation and characterization of Human Cytomegalovirus in the clinical specimens from immunocompromized patients” during the Public Viva Voce examination held on 09th January 2009 at Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R University Chennai., under the guidance of Dr. H.N Madhavan (Guide) and Dr. K. Lily Therese (Co- Guide)


• Ms. P. Deepa successfully defended her Ph.D thesis entitled “Role of nucleic acid based amplification tests in the detection and identification of mycobacterial infections and determination of sequence variation and rifampicin resistance among M. tuberculosis isolates” during the Public Viva Voce examination held on 12th December 2008 at Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R University Chennai., under the guidance of Dr. K. Lily Therese (Guide) and Dr. H.N Madhavan (Co- Guide).


• Dr. J. Biswas received "Dr. P. Siva Reddy Oration Award” from All India Ophthalmological Society for the year 2009.


• Dr J Biswas has been selected as “The Section Editor of Uvea Section” in Indian Journal of Ophthalmology.


• Dr J Biswas has been selected to serve on the writing committee for consensus report on Ocular toxoplasmosis on AJO in the focus issue on Uveitis. This distinction to Dr Biswas is due to his rich contributions to ophthalmic literature over the past two decades. Sankara Nethralaya acknowledges his contributions to science.


• Mr A P Irungovel has been selected as an editorial board member for Medical Sociology Online, a prestigious Journal.


• Dr J Biswas was given the “Thrissur Academy of Ophthalmology Oration Award” at the Thrissur Academy of Ophthalmology CME Programme TACOPSIA-2008, Thrissur on 21st September 2008.


• Dr. Sudha K Ganesh was elected as a Member of International Uveitis Study Group at the 7th International Symposium on Uveitis and International Uveitis Study Group (IUSG) Meeting, Constance, Germany, held between 8th and 12th September 2008. She presented a paper on Cataract surgery in uveitis


• Dr. H N Madhavan was conferred Genomic Pioneer Award 2008 for his outstanding contribution to the field of Genomics at the HGM 2008 held at Hyderabad during 27th to 30th Sep’08.


• Dr. S S Badrinath received Dr.K.V.Thiruvengadam Award for Health Care 2008-09 from the Former Governor of Orissa, Shri. M.M.Rajendran on 15th October 2008.


• Dr. Lingam Gopal received the Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology in 2008.


• Dr. T S Surendran elected as the President of Strabismological Society of India, New Delhi on 18th October 2008.


• Mr.S.Ve.Ramesh received the best paper award for individual scientific paper session in ASIA ARVO 2009 at Hyderabad on 15th – 18th January 2009


• Ms. M. Sowmiya, Junior research fellow received the best oral presentation award entitled “Analysis of mutations in QRDR region of gyrase A gene of bacteria belonging to Enterobacteriaceae isolated from the ocular specimens by PCR based DNA sequencing” in the ASIA ARVO 2009 conference, held at Hyderabad from January 15th – 18th 2009.


• Dr. B. Mahalakshmi received the Travel fellowship grant to attend “Asia Arvo 2009 Conference” held at Hyderabad from January 15th -18th 2009.


• Ms. S. Barathi, awarded the Best Scientific Poster Award and First runner up Award for overall poster session in the ASIA- ARVO 2009 conference at Hyderabad held during 14th Jan to 18th Jan 2009.


• Ms. K Coral and Ms. Barathi received the travel grant amounting to Rs. 10,000/- each in ASIA- ARVO 2009 conference at Hyderabad 14th Jan to 18th Jan 2009.


• Mr. Mallikarjuna received Best Paper Award for his paper titled "Proteomic analysis of Retinoblastoma reveals potential markers involved in Tumor progression" in ASIA ARVO 2009 conference at Hyderabad 14th Jan to 18th Jan 2009.


• Ms. Sasirekha Krishnan and Ms. Srilatha Jasty received Travel Fellowship Award in ASIA ARVO 2009 Conference at Hyderabad between 14th Jan to 18th Jan 2009.


• Ms. R. Gayathri, Senior Research fellow received the Second best prize award for poster presentation entitled “Detection of viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputum samples targeting 85 B gene by reverse transcriptase PCR” during the “National conference on Emerging trends in life sciences research” held at BITS Pilani from 3rd – 5th March 2009.


• Dr. Prema Padmanabhan has been selected “For the Excellent Work Done in Ophthalmology” and will be presented Gold Medal - 2009 by The Indian Intraocular Implant and Refractive Society (IIRSI), India on July 11th & 12th at Taj Coromandel, Chennai.


• Shri. Iravadham Mahadevan, Tamil Indian Epigraphist and Founder of Vidyasagar Institute of Bio-Medical Technology and Science, Vision Research Foundation, received “PADMASHREE” Award 2009.