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MOU With Dr Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital

News: November 22, 2024
Dr. Umang Mathur, the CEO of Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital (SCEH), New Delhi, and their senior scientist Dr. Anil Tiwari visited us recently when we signed a new MOU formalizing our collaboration. We look forward to this collaboration ushering in a stream of new discoveries, publications and...

New Publication in IOVS!

News: March 25, 2025
This new study spearheaded by Satinder Kaur and Peri Sohnen with able support from the rest of the team elucidates that SLURP1 serves as an insult-agnostic immunomodulator that upregulates antioxidants and suppresses ROS accumulation to promote redox homeostasis in corneal epithelial cells and...

New publication in IOVS!

News: January 05, 2026
New year, new publication! In this paper, we show that the apicobasal polarity determinant PARD3 regulates human corneal epithelial cell proliferation, extracellular matrix-binding, migration, F-actin polymerization, and barrier function. Loss of PARD3 activity pushes the corneal epithelial cells...

All set to work!

News: May 25, 2023
The disruption caused by the move from Pitt to USF is behind us! We are all set to make new strides in ocular surface biology at USF!

Simran Kumar

Person: Research Technician
Simran Kumar is the latest to join our group. Simran graduated from the University of South Florida in 2023 and aspires to be a medical professional. Simran is focused on studying the role of polarity determinant Pard3 in the corneal epithelium. In her free time, Simran likes to volunteer for...

Shiva swamynathan

Person: Professor of Ophthalmology. Morsani College of Medicine, USF
Shiva Swamynathan graduated with a B.Sc. (Agriculture) degree from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India, an M.Sc. degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India and a Ph.D. in Life Sciences from the Center for...

Pooja Yadav

Person: Post-doctoral Fellow
Pooja graduated with a Ph.D. from the Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India in 2024. Pooja is experienced in cell and molecular biology, with special emphasis in establishing primary cell cultures. Pooja joined our lab in April 2025. She focuses her effort on elucidating the role of PARD3 in...