Geeta Kashyap Vemuganti is an Indian ocular pathologist and the head of the department at the Ophthalmic Pathology Service and Stem Cell Laboratory of the
L. V. Prasad Eye Institute
The L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) is an eye-care network, established by Dr. Gullapalli Nageswara Rao, an ophthalmologist, at Hyderabad, in 1987. It is a non-profit, multi-campus, non-governmental institution. With more than 200 eye-care c ...
(LVPEI).
She is also a dean and professor at the school of medical sciences of the
University of Hyderabad.
Vemuganti is reported to have done pioneering work in stem cell therapy and was a member of the team led by
V. S. Sangwan that developed a protocol for transplanting cultured stem cells for restoring vision in humans.
She is an elected fellow of the
National Academy of Medical Sciences
National Academy of Medical Sciences (India), better known by its acronym, NAMS, is a nodal agency under the Government of India, which acts as an advisory body to the Government in matters related to National Health Policy and Planning and as a ...
and a recipient of the 2005 Chem Tech Foundation Award.
The
Department of Biotechnology
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) is an Indian government department, under the Ministry of Science and Technology responsible for administrating development and commercialisation in the field of modern biology and biotechnology in India. It ...
of the Government of India awarded her the
National Bioscience Award for Career Development
The National Bio-science Award for Career Development or N-BIOS Prize is an Indian science award for recognizing excellence and promoting research in bio-sciences disciplines. It was instituted in 1999 by the Department of Biotechnology of the Gov ...
, one of the highest Indian science awards, for her contributions to biosciences in 2004.
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Keratitis
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Stem cell therapy
Stem-cell therapy is the use of stem cells to treat or prevent a disease or condition. , the only established therapy using stem cells is hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. This usually takes the form of a bone-marrow transplantation, but ...
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N-BIOS Prize recipients
Indian scientific authors
Living people
Indian medical academics
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi alumni
Academic staff of the University of Hyderabad
Fellows of the National Academy of Medical Sciences
Indian ophthalmologists
Medical doctors from Hyderabad, India
Stem cell researchers
1960 births
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