Varanasi: The two-day annual conference on Cornea and Eye Banking organised by the Eye Bank Association of India and Varanasi Ophthalmological Society.
Varanasi: Class 10 student of Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir, Girinagar, Ernakulam, Kerala, Vandana Srinivasan, 15, who spoke on ‘how India can be leading nati.
India s first centre for regenerative therapies for damaged corneas has opened in Delhi, allowing patients to undergo bioengineered cornea treatment. The hospital will use tissue-specific exosomes and tissue-mimetic biomaterials to promote regeneration of healthy, functional corneas. The treatment is liquid drops applied to the cornea, which solidify in less than 10 minutes and integrate into the patient s cornea. Dr Virender Sangwan, director of innovation at the hospital, said the partnership, with Pandorum Technologies, aimed to explore innovative therapies in the regenerative medicine space to replace human tissue with artificial cells. | Latest News Delhi
Doctors to launch human trials on the made in India 'liquid cornea' for people with corneal blindness - a type of visual impairment due to diseases of the cornea.