Dr Soumyava Basu
Designation: Network Head, Uveitis Services, Consultant Ophthalmologist Specialisation: Uveitis & Ocular Immunology, Vitreo Retinal Diseases Email: basu@lvpei.org Location: Kallam Anji Reddy Campus, Hyderabad
Soumyava Basu is a Uveitis and Retina consultant at L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India, and heads the Uveitis services of the LVPEI network. He received medical training from the University of Mumbai, followed by retina fellowships at Shri Ganapati Netralaya, Jalna and L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad. He has also completed three research sabbaticals – with Prof Narsing Rao at Doheny Eye Institute (2010), Prof Jay Ambati at University of Kentucky (2013-14), and Prof Lalita Ramakrishnan at the University of Cambridge, UK (2016).
Dr Basu’s research interests lie in understanding the interactions between infection and autoimmunity in the immune-pathogenesis of ocular tuberculosis. He has received multiple competitive research grants, most recently the DBT Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship in Clinical and Public Health Research (2019-24). He has published widely in peer-reviewed international journals and has been a reviewer for nearly all major ophthalmology journals. Dr Basu has been actively involved in framing the Indian Extra-pulmonary TB (INDEX-TB) guidelines. He has also been the principal investigator for several multi-centric clinical trials.
You can read more about his research at: https://www.indiaalliance.org/news/deep-diving-into-tb-in-the-eye