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Hyderabad, January 27, 2025: The Institute of Vision Rehabilitation (IVR) of the L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) received the Governor's Award for Excellence in Divyangjan Welfare on January 26, 2025, at Raj Bhavan. The award included a citation and a cheque for rupees two lakhs. The esteemed recognition highlights the institute’s exceptional contributions to empowering, including, and supporting persons with disabilities (Divyangjan).    As one of the very few eye institutes in the world that has integrated vision rehabilitation into its functional arms since inception (in 1992) the award is a recognition of LVPEI’s dedication, diligence, progress, performance and impact.  

The first series of the Governor’s Awards for Excellence 2024 — the first of its kind in the history of Raj Bhavan (Telangana State) recognising the outstanding contributions of individuals and organisations, were presented on the 76th Republi...

Hyderabad, 22 January 2025: The research teams at L V Prasad Eye Institute under the Centre for Ocular Regeneration (CORE) at the Brien Holden Research Centre, organized the second edition of the ‘Future is Here’ conference between 9-12 January 2025. The conference brought together over 200 participants ranging from basic scientists, graduate students, engineers to ophthalmologists from 31 institutes over the four days, marking the confluence of a young and interesting set of teams coalescing around research ideas and practices on the frontiers of ophthalmology.  Participants came from USA, Germany, Australia, and the IITs, CSIRs, and central universities across India for the conference. With a focus on animal models; in vitro diseases models; cell, gene, and stem cell therapies; biomaterials; and diagnostics; the event also discussed funding and collaboration activities for these research areas.

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In a groundbreaking achievement, Dr Anasua Ganguly Kapoor and her multidisciplinary team at the L V Prasad Eye Institute at Kode Venkatadri Chowdary (KVC) Campus, Vijayawada, have successfully performed the first-ever Plaque Brachytherapy procedure in Andhra Pradesh. Plaque Brachytherapy is a cutting-edge procedure to treat eye cancer.  

Plaque brachytherapy is an advanced treatment used primarily for intraocular tumors such as choroidal melanoma, choroidal hemangioma, retinal vascular tumors, and other ocular surface tumors. It is often employed in small to medium sized intraocular tumors to achieve globe salvage or in refractory cases of retinoblastoma where first-line treatments, like laser photocoagulation or systemic therapies, are ineffective.  

The operational readiness to perform this procedure was achieved following a four-year process initiated in 2020, that included infrastructure and team development and compliance with Atomic Energy R...