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Hyderabad: Fitness enthusiasts and amateur runners from across the city turned up at Necklace Road on Sunday to take part in Whitathon Run, the annual running event of LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) organised to raise awareness and funds for early diagnosis and treatment of retinoblastoma, the eye cancer among children. The Whitathon Run, comprising […]
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Hyderabad: LV Prasad Eye Institute, as part of its undertaking of developing various Institutes of Excellence that focus on major causes of blindness, is partnering with the Bajaj Group for an Institute of Excellence and a Global Resource Centre for Retinal Diseases. The MoU to formalise the partnership was signed between Shekhar Bajaj, Chairman and […]
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Hyderabad: Six noted scientists from city-based LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) have been listed among the top researchers (lifetime achievers) in the world in a study done by Stanford University. According to a press release here on Wednesday, the scientists who are part of the top researchers included Dr Gullapalli N Rao, Founder and Distinguished […]
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Both the institutions will share expertise and resources to expand their capabilities in ophthalmic clinical genetics, molecular genetics, cytogenetics.
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Dr Rao could have simply stayed in USA after his education but chose to come back and establish the institute in Hyderabad. Today, 80 per cent of medical devices are imported in India.
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The institute also named an eye examination room at LVPEI Secondary Centre, Siddipet, after the brothers’ late grandfather Sudarshan Padakanti, upon the request of the two.
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The LVPEI in a release said that about 8.8 million people in India are blind, and another 47 million people are visually impaired.
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Hyderabad: To minimise the delay in providing timely treatment for patients with mucormycosis that needs early diagnosis and timely treatment, city-based LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) has introduced a hotline number 18002002211. People can call any time on this number between 9 am and 6 pm from Monday to Saturday for any queries regarding mucormycosis. […]
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Sangareddy: The School of Science (SoS) at the Hyderabad campus of GITAM Deemed University is going to launch Bachelor of Optometry from the academic year 2021-22 in collaboration with LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI). Making an announcement in this regard on Tuesday, SoS principal prof GA Rama Rao, said that the B Optometry course is a four-year […]
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The institute also plans on expanding the scope of their activities beyond the network and has partnered for setting up eye banks in other states.
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Hyderabad: The Institute for Vision Rehabilitation of LV Prasad Eye Research Institute (LVPEI) has received the prestigious Sarojini Triloknath National Award instituted by National Association for the Blind in the ‘Best Institution’ category for its services towards visually-impaired people. The award was presented to Dr Beula Christy, Head, LVPEI-Institute for Vision Rehabilitation in a recent […]
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Institute has already launched a Special Centre for Myopia at LVPEI, which will be developed into an institute to focus on the disease, which is often overlooked in the public health sector
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The Stanford study ‘Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators’ included 16 scientists from CSIR-IICT and five scientists from LVPEI in the list. T
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From LVPEI, Founder Chair, Dr Gullapalli N Rao, senior scientist and Director Emeritus, Prof Brien Holden Eye Research Centre, Prof D.Balasubramanian, Director, Laboratory Services, Dr Savitri Sharma, visiting professor, Jill Keeffe have been featured
