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LVPEI to receive unique global award: ‘The Greenberg Prize – End Blindness 2020’

Dec 9, 2020 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Dr Greenberg, #Dr Gullapalli N Rao, #Founder-Chair, #Johns Hopkins University, #L V Prasad Eye Institute, #LVPEI, #Sanford and Susan Greenberg End Blindness Foundation, #Wilmer Eye Institute

 

 Hyderabad: L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) is one of the few recipients of the very prestigious ‘The Greenberg Prize – End Blindness 2020’. The winners were chosen based on the strength of their contributions to eliminate blindness. Dr Gullapalli N Rao, Founder-Chair, L V Prasad Eye Institute is being presented with this award in the ‘Outstanding Achievement Prize’ category.

‘End Blindness’ was a movement to eradicate blindness created by Dr Sanford Greenberg, who had himself lost his eyes at 19 years of his age, and his wife Susan. When Dr Greenberg was the chairman of the board governors of the Johns Hopkins University’s Wilmer Eye Institute, in 2012, this award was announced to recognise the work of the scientific and medical communities who pioneered in the fight to end blindness, between then and 2020.

“I feel humbled and honoured to accept this prestigious award on behalf of over the 3000 strong family of L V Prasad Eye Institute and its numerous supporters all over the globe. Eliminating avoidable blindness by the year 2020 has been an aspiration of the global eye care community for over two decades. I want to place on record our gratitude to Sanford and Susan Greenberg End Blindness Foundation for recognizing our contribution to this global effort. My heartiest congratulations to all the other winners,” said a thrilled Dr Gullapalli N Rao, Founder-Chair, L V Prasad Eye Institute.

Recipients of The Greenberg Prize include members of the scientific and medical communities who have pioneered breath-taking advances in the fight to end the debilitating condition. Prize recipients are being honored in two categories: the Outstanding Achievement Prize, highlighting profound strides toward preventing and curing blindness, and The Visionary Prize, providing funding for scientists whose research exhibits significant potential in ending this ancient scourge.

Awarding $3 million in prize money, The Greenberg Prize is the highwater mark of a historic joint effort by leading scientists and figures from the worlds of business, politics, culture, art, music and entertainment. LVPEI shares the award with one more organization in India.

Details to watch the award ceremony: The hour-long award ceremony will be streamed live and will be freely accessible and open to all at www.EndBlindness2020.com. It will be streamed online at 19:00 EST on Monday, 14 December 2020; Indian Time: 05:30 IST on Tuesday, 15 December 2020.

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Stanford University Study names five from LVPEI among Top 2% scientists of the world

Nov 6, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Dr Gullapalli N Rao, #Dr Santosh Honavar, #Dr Savitri Sharma, #Dr Virender Sangwan, #LVPEI, #Prof Brien Holden, #Prof D Balasubramanian, #Professor Jill Keeffe, #scientists, #Stanford University

L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) has had five of its eminent senior scientists listed among the top Indian researchers in a database of 100,000 scientists worldwide. From L V Prasad Eye Institute, Dr Gullapalli N Rao – Founder-Chair; Prof D Balasubramanian – Distinguished Scientist and Director Emeritus, Prof Brien Holden Eye Research Centre; Dr Savitri Sharma – Director, Laboratory Services; Professor Jill Keeffe – Visiting Professor, have featured in the database of top 2% of scientists under the discipline of ‘Ophthalmology’ while Dr S Shivaji – Distinguished Scientist and Former Director, Prof Brien Holden Eye Research Centre, has featured in this list in the ‘Microbiology’ category. Dr Gullapalli N Rao has been ranked as the top scientist in Eye Research from India. Additionally, two former members of LVPEI faculty, Dr Virender Sangwan and Dr Santosh Honavar are also included in the list.

This database of top-cited scientists has been created by a team of scientists at Stanford University, USA, and is published in the journal PLOS Biology. It includes all scientists who are among top 100,000 across all fields and/or top 2% of their discipline, based on the number of citations. The data was collected from the Scopus database for 6.8 million prolific authors out of which the top 100,000 were analysed extensively.

“Congratulations to everyone on the global eye researchers list. With LVPEI dominating the list from India, it is great going indeed for our Institute. I am proud that LVPEI’s investment in research of nearly 13% of the budget annually is giving rich dividends,” said a thrilled Dr Gullapalli N Rao.

Read more about the listing:

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918