Dr. C.A. Nelson Jesudason. Joseph Eye Hospital is one of the largest in the southern part of the country with specialists in all super specialties of Ophthalmology and running several academic training courses for accredited degrees and diploma in ophthalmology and the approximate number of cataract surgeries they do in a year is close to 35000. It has postgraduate course in MS., D.O., and DNB affiliated to Tamilnadu Dr MGR Medical University, recognized by Medical Council of India, and also having affiliations with ,Bharatididasn University and Mother Teresa University.

The collaborative research is likely to take a minimum of 12 months and further renewable; when successful, is likely to yield a definitive solutions to several problems of the corneal endothelial diseases. Prof. Mori Yuichi and Dr Yoshioka Hiroshi of Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan would function as advisors in the project.

Earlier NCRM has already filed an international patent on an invention jointly with a Chennai based Sankara Nethralaya in corneal limbal stem cells and have also been working on areas such as Liver failure and Retina stem cells.

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