The ORNATE-India Team

ORNATE India  is a multidisciplinary, multifaceted UK-India collaborative study led by Professor Sobha Sivaprasad, a retinal consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London.  The project team consists of ophthalmologists, diabetologists, public health experts, primary care physicians, research scientists, biostatisticians, computer engineers and health economists from India and the UK.

Team

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Project Team in UK

Prof Sobha Sivaprasad

Moorfields Eye Hospital, London

New therapies for age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and venous occlusive disease

Prof John Greenwood

UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London

Research into the role the vascular endothelium plays in the pathogenesis of brain and …

Prof Patric Turowski

UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London

Vascular endothelial cells line blood vessels and play a major role in defining their phenotypic characteristics.

Prof Toby Prevost

King’s College London

Since May 2020, Toby Prevost has been a Visiting Professor at Imperial, and the Nightingale-Saunders

Prof Mala Rao

Imperial College London

Senior Clinical Fellow, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London

Prof Azeem Majeed

Imperial College London

Department of Primary Care & Public Health at Imperial College London. I qualified at the University

Prof Gopal Netuveli

University of East London

Gopalakrishnan’s background is in natural and clinical sciences with research interests

Mr Raphael Wittenberg

University of Oxford

Principal Research Fellow, Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics.

Dr Dolores Conroy

UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London

Dolores has a degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Pharmacology and spent her early

Dr Christos Bergeles

King’s College London

Radha Ramakrishnan

Data Manager, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

Dolores has a degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Pharmacology and spent her early

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Project Team in India

Dr Rajiv Raman

Vision Research Foundation, Sankara Nethralaya,Chennai

Since May 2020, Toby Prevost has been a Visiting Professor at Imperial, and the Nightingale-Saunders

Dr Kim Ramasamy

Aravind Medical Research Foundation, Madurai

Dr Taraprasad Das

Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation, L V Prasad Eye Institute,Hyderabad

Principal Research Fellow, Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics.

Dr Viswanathan Mohan

Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai.

Department of Primary Care & Public Health at Imperial College London. I qualified at the University

Dr Ramachandran Rajalakshmi

Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai

Gopalakrishnan’s background is in natural and clinical sciences with research interests

Dr Subramanian Krishnakumar

Vision Research Foundation, SankaraNethralaya,Chennai

Vision Research Foundation, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India

Dr Sowyma Parameswaran

Vision Research Foundation, Sankara Nethralaya,Chennai

Dr Uma Maheswari Krishnan

SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur

Dolores has a degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Pharmacology and spent her early

Dr Giridhar

SSM Eye Research Foundation, Giridhar Eye Institute, Cochin

Senior Clinical Fellow, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London

Dr Rajan Khobragade

The Principal Secretary Health & Family Welfare, Government of Kerala.

Janani Surya

SMART-India Study Manager, Vision Research, Chennai, India

Lakshmi Premnazir

Kerala Study Project Manager, Trivandrum, Kerala

International Advisory Board

Shri Keshav Desiraju

Former Health Secretary India

Mrs Jinty Moffett

lay representative of Grants Assessment Panel at Diabetes UK (patient representative)

Ms Rachel Connor

Director of Research Partnerships, Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund, UK

Dr William Summerskill

Consulting Editor at Lancet

Mr Denis Horgan

Executive Director, European Alliance for Personalised Medicine, Belgium

Department of Primary Care & Public Health at Imperial College London. I qualified at the University

Professor Vivekanand Jha

Executive Director at The George Institute for Global Health, India

Professor Peter Scanlon

Director of the UK Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme, UK

Dr Vijay Viswanathan

Diabetologist, Tamil Nadu, India

Dr Tarun Sharma

Retinal Specialist, Harkness Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University. USA

Mr S M Vijayanand

former Chief Secretary, Government of Kerala

Mr Rajeev Sadanandan

Ex Health Secretary, Government of Kerala, India

Professor Howard Griffiths

University of Cambridge, UK

Mrs Jill Jones

Head of Global Health Strategy, Medical Research Council, UK

Funder

UK Research Innovation (UKRI) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) awarded £6.336 million to Moorfields Eye Hospital, London in October 2017 for the 51 month ORNATE India study.

Contact

For further information contact:

Professor Sobha Sivaprasad, ORNATE India Lead Investigator, Moorfields Eye Hospital sobha.sivaprasad@nhs.net

or

Dr Dolores  Conroy, ORNATE India Research Project Manager d.conroy@ucl.ac.uk

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