Odisha, 22^nd November 2025

Dr. Usha Kim, Chief of Orbit, Oculoplasty, Ocular Oncology & Ocular Prosthetics Services at Aravind-Madurai, was honoured with the Prof. Dr. Chhayakanta Mahapatra Oration Award for Oculoplasty at the Annual Conference of the Odisha State Ophthalmological Society 2025 held in Berhampur, Odisha.

Aravind-Salem

Dr. Megha, Medical Consultant, Aravind-Salem, was selected for the AIOS Travel Fellowship to attend the WGC Conference in Honolulu, USA.

Uttar Pradesh, 7-9 November 2025

Dr. S. Sivaranjani, Medical Consultant, Retina Vitreous Services, Aravind-Pondicherry, was honoured with the Dr. V. N. Raizada Award at the 59th Annual Conference of the U.P. State Ophthalmological Society – GORAKSHEYECON 2025, held at The Radiant, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.

Bengaluru, 7-9 November 2025

Hari Vignesh Sekar, Research Scholar, AMRF, received a Travel Grant Fellowship for his poster presentation at the PRIME Summit 2025 (Progress in Regenerative & Investigational Medicine in Eye) Workshop & Conference, organised by the Narayana Nethralaya Foundation, Bengaluru.

Title: Mitochondrial dysfunction drives primary open-angle glaucoma: Insights from whole mitochondrial genome sequencing (Poster presentation)

Goa, 31^st October – 2^nd November 2025

Dr. Athul S. Puthalath, Medical Consultant, Retina & Vitreous Services, Aravind-Madurai, won Hack the Tech Award at the 34th Annual Conference of the Vitreo Retina Society of India (VRSI 2025), held in Goa.

Title: Time-Lapse Tomography (TLT): Neural interpolation of serial OCTs for dynamic retinal imaging

Hyderabad, 31^st October-2^nd November 2025

Dr. Bennet Chacko Mathew, Medical Consultant, Cornea Services, Aravind-Coimbatore, won the Dr. Savitri Sharma Award for Best Paper Presentation in the Scientific Research category at the Bug Buster 5: Corneal Infection Workshop, conducted by L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), Hyderabad.

Title: Diagnostic accuracy of the CRISPR-based RID-MyC assay in smear- and culture-negative fungal keratitis
Co-author: Dr. Siddharth Narendran

Andhra Pradesh, 10-12 September 2025

Dr. R. Venkatesh, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Aravind-Pondicherry, was honoured with the Dr. Rajesh Ganesuni Innovations in Ophthalmology Lecture 2025 Award, while Dr. Haripriya Aravind, Chief, IOL Services, Aravind-Chennai, received the Dr. G. Sundaram Ramaraju Cataract Lecture 2025 Award, at Eyecon 2025, the 10th Annual Conference of APOS, held in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.