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Shiva serves as a mentor to a developing country eye research fellow at ARVO 2024

News: May 02, 2024

Shiva served as a mentor (along with Dr. Yutao Liu from Georgia) to Dr. George Sosuan, a promising young physician-scientist from the Philippines at the 2024 ARVO annual meeting. This was a part of the Developing Country Eye Research Fellows program designed by ARVO to provide mentorship to those...

Swamynathan Lab Members Attend ARVO 2023

News: April 29, 2023

Sudha, Satinder, Peri and Shiva attended the 2023 ARVO annual meeting at New Orleans, Louisiana and presented their recent research outcomes. ARVO extended a warm welcome to us with Jazz music at the airport! It was great to meet friends and share our work with colleagues from around the world!

Our latest review published in 'Differentiation'

News: July 15, 2023

Our latest review on corneal epithelial development and homeostasis is now published by the journal 'Differentiation'! Corneal epithelial development and homeostasis - ScienceDirect

Successful string of presentations at ARVO 2025

News: May 10, 2025

The Swamynathan lab had a strong presence at the 2025 ARVO annual meeting held at Salt Lake City, UT. Excellent presentations drew insightful comments and valuable feedback from those attending. It was exciting to meet friends, make new contacts and share our work with peers.

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!

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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...