I received PhD from the University of Göttingen, Germany and pursued postdoctoral fellowships at Bielefeld University, Germany; Harvard Medical School, USA and University of Toronto, Canada. Also, I held JSPS short-term fellowship at Hokkaido University, Japan. Later, I joined Vision Research Foundation, Chennai, as a Senior Scientist and initiated studies on neuronal degeneration in human Retina. Subsequently, I became an assistant professor through UGC-Faculty Recharge Program (UGC-FRP) at Pondicherry University where I have established a research program on ‘Retina in Health and Disease’. The long-term goal is to identify the disease mechanisms and drug targets for human retinal blinding disorders.

The ‘Sensorineural Engineering and Cell Therapeutics lab’ has two arms where one is primarily focusing on Retinal disease biology, especially, the regulatory mechanisms of retinal degenerative diseases to identify drug targets and relevant biomarkers from donor eyes and patient samples. The other arm is, Translational unit which is in the process of creating pre-clinical drug screening models like human retinal explant cultures, in vitro retinal barriers, bio-artificial retina-on-a-chip and retinal organoids for disease modeling and drug development process. My research projects involve a strong interfacing between ophthalmologists, optometrists, patients and scientists from varied fields. The insights gained will provide fundamental knowledge with broad biomedical application.