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Shiva to serve as a Member of the ARVO Professional Development and Education Committee

News: May 15, 2024

On May 15, Shiva began serving as a member of the ARVO Professional Development and Education Committee. He will be engaged in this committee for the next three years.

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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...

Two new post-doctoral fellows join the Swamynathan lab!

News: April 01, 2025

The Swamynathan laboratory welcomed Dr. Asmita Pawar and Dr. Pooja Yadav as post-doctoral fellows.

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...

Satinder's Bridal Shower!

News: March 29, 2024

Satinder Kaur is engaged to marry Karanvir Kaushal, who works at Stanford University. We celebrated with a bridal shower! Their wedding is scheduled for April 18 in India. We wish Satinder and Karan a lifetime of love and laughter together!

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Peri Sohnen

Person: Research Technician

Peri graduated with a B.S degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 2019 and aspires to be a medical professional. Peri is focused on studying the role of polarity determinant Pard3 in the retinal pigmented epithelium. In his free time, Peri likes to play video games and develop new methods to...

Asmita Pawar

Person: Post-doctoral Fellow

Asmita received her PhD in Life sciences from Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India, where she investigated the calcium-binding properties of many novel proteins that belonged to diverse domain superfamilies like- beta gamma-crystallin, bacterial immunoglobulin-like (Big)...