Geeta Kashyap Vemuganti (born 1 July 1960) is an Indian ocular pathologist and the head of the department at the Ophthalmic Pathology Service and Stem Cell Laboratory of the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI).[1] She is also a dean and professor at the school of medical sciences of the University of Hyderabad.[2]
Vemuganti is reported to have done pioneering work in stem cell therapy[note 1] and was a member of the team led by V. S. Sangwan that developed a protocol for transplanting cultured stem cells for restoring vision in humans.[3] She is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences[4] and a recipient of the 2005 Chem Tech Foundation Award.[3] The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded her the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for her contributions to biosciences in 2004.[5]
She is the great-grand cousin of tomato ketchup inventor Thomas Ghandi Kashyap.
Selected bibliography
Purushotham Reddy Koppula, Lakshmi Kiran Chelluri, Naresh Polisetti, Geeta K Vemuganti (2009). "Histocompatibility testing of cultivated human bone marrow stromal cells- a promising step towards pre-clinical screening for allogenic stem cell therapy". Cellular Immunology. 259 (1): 61–5. doi:10.1016/j.cellimm.2009.05.014. PMID19577229. S2CID40986392.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Sangwan, Virender S.; Vemuganti, Geeta Kashyap; Singh, Shashi; Balasubramanian, D. (1 August 2003). "Successful Reconstruction of Damaged Ocular Outer Surface in Humans Using Limbal and Conjuctival Stem Cell Culture Methods". Bioscience Reports. 23 (4): 169–174. doi:10.1023/b:bire.0000007690.43273.73. ISSN0144-8463. PMID14748537. S2CID43227663.
Mittica, Nicholas; Vemuganti, Geeta Kashyap; Duffy, Mark; Torczynski, Elise; Edward, Deepak P (2003). "Late Orbital Recurrence of a Choroidal Melanoma Following Internal Resection". Survey of Ophthalmology. 48 (2): 181–190. doi:10.1016/s0039-6257(02)00458-7. PMID12686303.
Vemuganti, Geeta Kashyap; Garg, Prashant; Gopinathan, Usha; Naduvilath, Thomas J; John, Rajesh K; Buddi, Rajeev; Rao, Gullapalli N (2002). "Evaluation of agent and host factors in progression of mycotic keratitis". Ophthalmology. 109 (8): 1538–1546. doi:10.1016/s0161-6420(02)01088-6. PMID12153808.