6 International ARVO Travel Grants

LVPEI has bagged a rich haul of support from the ARVO Foundation – 6 international travel grants – to attend the ARVO annual meeting that will be held in Denver, USA, in May 2022. Travel grants Awarded to: 

• Goutham Pyatla (Area – Genomics; Mentor – Dr Subhabrata Chakrabarti) 
• Reena Durai (Area – Vision Science; Mentor – Dr Shrikant Bharadwaj) 
• Bhagya Lakshmi Marella (Area – Vision Science; Mentor – Dr Shrikant Bharadwaj)  
• Vinay Kumar (Area – Stem Cells; Mentor – Dr Indumathi Mariappan )  
• Rohit Dhakal (Area – Myopia; Mentor – Dr Pavan Verkicharla) 
• Mohammed Salman (Area – Stem Cells; Mentor – Dr Vivek Singh)  

Two of LVPEI’s PhD students – Goutham Pyatla and Rebecca Sumalini were earlier this year also awarded the prestigious Developing Country Eye research Fellowship (DCERF) by the ARVO Foundation