As Officer In-Charge of Community Ophthalmology at the apex ophthalmic institute of the country, I have been instrumental in developing models for community outreach services and strengthening epidemiological research and training in the field of community eye care. I have been Principal Investigator of 42 research and community eye care projects implemented in RP Centre in partnership with international, national organizations including WHO, NPCBVI, ICMR, DST, SightSavers, Operation Eyesight Universal, VisionSpring, ORBIS, LCIF and CBM. I have more than 80 publications in international and national peer-reviewed journals. I have delivered more than 300 lectures as resource person/faculty in conferences and CMEs organized at international and national level. I routinely provide technical assistance to NPCBVI and was appointed as Principal Investigator for the National Blindness Survey 2015-19 and National Trachoma Surveys 2014-17. As an outcome of this National Trachoma Survey, Government of India declared elimination of active trachoma among children in India. I have also been appointed by WHO as member of dossier review committee for elimination of Trachoma in Nepal and Myanmar. I have been involved in blindness control and rehabilitation activities with WHO SEARO and coordinating the activities of WHO-Collaborative Centre for Prevention of Blindness at RP Centre, AIIMS. I am also Vice President and key resource person for Vision 2020-Right to Sight, India.

Dr Seema Kashyap completed her graduation from TNMC Bombay and joined AIIMS as a post graduate in 1992. After completing her MD (AIIMS) in Pathology in 1995, she worked as a Senior Resident at the AIIMS Pathology department till 1998. She joined as an Assistant Professor at Dr. R. P. Centre, Ocular Pathology section in 1999.

Area of interest

• Ocular Cytopathology and Histopathology
• Ocular Oncology, Retinoblastoma and uveal melanoma
• Corneal Pathology

Main Interests

• Ophthalmic histopathology and cytopathology
• Ocular Oncology
• Corneal Pathology
• Glaucoma 

Academic and Research Contributions

• Atlas of Ophthalmic Pathology, Sen S. HMG Publishers, 2002.
• Molecular  basis of  Eyelid malignancies
• Human Papilloma Virus and Ocular malignancies
• Chlamydophila and Ocular Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
• Glaucoma pathology
• Corneal diseases
• Retinoblastoma
• Uveal melanoma

Education Training:

• MBBS- Tirunelveli Medical College, Dr. MGR University, Tamil Nadu
• MD (Microbiology)- Grant Medical College, Mumbai University, Mumbai, Maharashtra
• Senior Resident- Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Work Experience, Research, Achievements:

Dr. Nishat Hussain Ahmed aims at working on a holistic approach for management, prevention and control of infectious diseases. She is dedicated for continuous quality improvement, and has been instrumental in inconstant betterment of patient care and infection control activities at the centre. Herself a Gold medallist from Mumbai University for her exceptional performance in MD Microbiology, she is a passionate teacher and exults in teaching and mentoring undergraduate, postgraduate and super specialty medical students. She is serving as Officer In-Charge of Ocular Microbiology section since December 2019 and Nodal Officer for COVID-19 HIC for R P Centre since March 2020

Her research interests revolve around clinical research in infectious diseases, which is of immediate benefit to the patients. Notable are, her award-winning works on novel subspecies of Staphylococcus hominis in blood stream infections of patients with underlying malignancy; development of a molecular test to simultaneously detect five ocular viral pathogens; and on Rhodotorula species- an emerging yeast as a pathogen in ocular infections. She has more than fifty publications in indexed medical journals and has presented papers and delivered talks in various national and international conferences.

She is a Human Biology graduate from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. She has pursued her post graduation in Pharmacology and subsequently completed her PhD in Ocular Pharmacology from AIIMS, New Delhi in 2004. Subsequently she has joined as a lecturer in PharmacologyDeptt.at Delhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Science &Research (DIPSAR), New Delhi and in 2005 she has been appointed as a Scientist-I in the Deptt. Of Pharmacology, AIIMS. In 2012, she has joined as an Assistant Professor in Ocular Pharmacology & Pharmacy at Dr.RPCentre for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS, New Delhi.

She has been working on in-vitro screening of drugs in cells and organ culture. She is also into developing drugs for dry eye with special reference to postmenopausal dry eye syndrome. Her fields of interests also include exploration of mechanisms involved in diabetic retinopathy and ocular inflammation.

She has been funded by extramural project from DST.

He has completed graduation in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Tamil Nadu Dr.MGR Medical University with a Distinction in Pharmacology. He pursued his post graduation in Drug Assay in Pharmacology and subsequently pursed PhD from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.  He was awarded PhD in 1999 for his studies on liposome drug delivery to eye and its corneal interactions in which he has done a part of his study from the InstitutfürAnatomie und Zellbiologie - UniversitätWürzburg, Germany. After serving as a Senior Demonstrator and DST Young Scientist Project investigator at AIIMS in the Department of Pharmacology, he has joined as Assistant Professor of Ocular Pharmacology at Dr.RPCentre for Ophthalmic Sciences of AIIMS in 2003 at present he is the Professor and In-Charge of Ocular Pharmacology and Pharmacy Division.

He has been working on ocular pharmacokinetics with the special reference to the contribution of xenobiotic transporters in blood ocular barriers. He has been involved in developing animal models, drugs, their formulations and their delivery systems for ocular angiogenesis, infections, cataract and dry eye. His laboratory is also involved in studying ocular toxicity drugs, tear lipidomics, pharmacogenomics and   ocular QSPR studies using molecular dynamics. His team was involved in addressing several environmental issues contributing towards ocular toxicity of chemical agents.

So far his research has been funded by extramural projects from DST, DBT, ICMR, MHFW, DRDO, AIIMS (intramural), Pharmaceutical companies in India and agencies from abroad. His laboratory has received Level I grant under DST-FIST program for High Precision Bioanalytical Facility (HPBAF) with tandem mass spectroscopy (LC-MS/MS).

He has had the honour of being invited to serve at various places in diverse capacities of speaker, moderator, Session Chairman, Academic Committee member, Technical expert, as well examiner in Biological and Pharmaceutical sciences. He has also been included as advisor and member in various committees of Govt.of India for making decision in drug & research related affairs time to time.   

Awards, Honours & Recognitions

• 2014 – Dr. Vinod Kumar Bhargava Award for Clinical Pharmacology and Drug Discovery by NAMS
• 2014 – Editor (Pharmacology), Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
• 2014 – AIIMS Excellence Research Award – Commendation Certificate
• 2012 – Visiting Professor – MIT-Harvard (Health Sciences and Technology)
• 2011 – Visiting Faculty – BPKIHS, Nepal (Clinical Pharmacology)
• 2010 – Nominated Member of the PG-Curriculum Review Committee of Sikkim University
• CSIR Senior Research Fellowship
• ISER – Pharmacia International Travel Fellowship
• Servior Young Investigators Award

Main Research interests

Genetics of Ocular diseases

Tissue and Cell culture, Stem Cell culture

Multidrug resistance

Angiogenesis in ARMD and glaucoma

Dr. Neiwete Lomi is currently Associate Professor at Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. Dr. Lomi has done MBBS from SKMCH, Muzaffarpur, Bihar and completed post-graduation in Ophthalmology from AIIMS, New Delhi. Subsequently, he obtained super specialty training in Cornea, Refractive Surgery and Glaucoma from PGIMER Chandigarh. His current field of interest is in ocular oncology, specially retinoblastoma and uveal melanoma. Besides ocular oncology works, he is also a compassionate and dedicated ophthalmic surgeon working actively in clinical and research activity in the speciality of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery. Dr. Lomi is one of the first ophthalmic surgeon from north India to perform plaque brachytherapy on ocular tumors since 2017 and also initiated Gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery for treating large choroidal melanoma in collaboration with Gamma knife unit at AIIMS. Currently he is working in institutional project on melanogenesis in ocular melanoma, Radiomics and Radiogenomics profiling in retinoblastoma and improvised plaque brachytherapy for various ocular tumours.