LVPEI Receives Aus Patent For Novel Cell Therapy

Hyderabad: L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) said it has been granted an Australian patent for a novel cell therapy that can be used to repair damaged corneas from a range of corneal diseases.

The patent was granted to two inventors from LVPEI, Drs Sayan Basu and Vivek Singh. Dr Basu is a corneal surgeon and a clinician-scientist at LVPEI. He is the Director of the Centre for Ocular Regeneration (CORE) at LVPEI. Dr Singh is a scientist at the Sudhakar and Sreekanth Ravi Stem Cell Biology Laboratory and Centre for Ocular Regeneration (CORE), LVPEI.