I grew up in India then moved to the U.S. in 2002, where I completed all of my higher education. In 2008, my professor at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Ill. introduced me to the eye research community and I have continued to pursue vision research since!  

My lab studies a common blinding disease of the cornea called Fuchs dystrophy which has no cure and the current treatment is corneal transplantation. Only 1 in 70 patients have access to transplant tissue globally. By studying the disease onset and progression using a newly developed mouse model — the only model that has all the disease features — we hope to develop therapies for patients. Read the Story here!