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NEWS

2024 - 2025
 

  • Raji attended ARVO Advocacy Day 2024 in Washington D.C. She met with staffers of Senator Mike Braun and Senator Todd Young to explain the importance of vision research funding. 

  • Sachin passed his qualifying exam! He is the latest Ph.D. candidate in the lab!

  • Raji received the Dean’s Alumni Award: College of Science, Health & Pharmacy from her alma mater, Roosevelt University (April 2024). Read the story here

  • The first paper from the lab is now published in IOVS!

  • Subashree presented a talk at the Corneal endothelium session at ARVO 2024! Viviane presented a poster! We had a lot of fun Seattle!

  • Subashree received the prestigious Mike Ezell fellowship from the American Academy of Optometry! See the official announcement from the Academy here

  • Sachin received a grant in aid of research from Sigma Xi! See the list of recipients here 

  • The lab received Core Pilot Funding from Indiana CTSI!

  • Raji was selected to be an Emerging Vision Scientist by the Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR). 

First year (2023-2024)
 

  • Lab officially opened on January 1st! Raji has an office!

  • Raji spoke at the ARVO ADVANCE Conference on navigating the academic job market (Feb 2023)

  • Viviane Campos joins the lab as the first post-doc (Feb 2023).

  • Raji contributed to a review paper that was accepted in Autophagy Reports (Mar 2023)

  • Raji (along with three other co-editors) completed the special issue on Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. An editorial was published in June 2023

  • Matthew presents his poster at the Department of Biology retreat (June 2023)

  • The lab receives pilot funding from the Indiana University Faculty Research support program to work on Dry Eye Disease with Dr. Anna Tichenor (June 2023)

  • Subashree wins best presentation award at Heartland Vision Research Symposium (Aug 2023)

  • Viviane received a travel grant to attend AOPT conference in Indianapolis (Aug 2023)

  • Raji spoke at AOPT conference on Protein Clearance Pathways in FECD (Aug 2023)

  • Subashree presented her work at American Academy of Optometry Meeting in New Orleans (Oct 2023)

  • First pre-print from the lab is now on BioRxiv! Subashree's first original research paper (Oct 2023)!!

  • Raji gave a guest lecture at Dr. Shroff Charity Eye Hospital in New Delhi and a key note address at OptoExcellence (Dec 2023). 

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