Tej Kohli Cornea Institute - UK Centre For Interdisciplina

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The Tej Kohli Foundation is building an interdisciplinary hub of innovation for the development of scientific and technological solutions that can eliminate blindness in poor communities worldwide. Interdisciplinary innovation is at the heart of the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute, and our mission is a world where nobody is blind because they cannot afford or access treatment.

As part of this mission, we have made annual grant funding available to scientific and technological projects based in the United Kingdom. To be eligible for a grant a project must be able to demonstrate a clear path toward alleviating corneal blindness in the poor countries that are home to 90% of those living with blindness and severe visual impairment.

Eligible projects must also have a current or prior attachment to an established and recognised UK institution such as a university, hospital or institute; or have access to the infrastructure and resources of a large and established organisation. Projects should be seeking to use technology, science, research or some other novel innovation or application.

BACKGROUND

The Tej Kohli Cornea Institute was established in 2015 at the LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, a World Health Organization collaborating centre that is a global leader in research and development, preventative medicine and Corneal transplants. Between 2016 and 2019 the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute at LV Prasad welcomed 223,404 outpatients, completed 43,255 surgical procedures, collected 38,225 donor corneas into its eye bank, utilized 22,176 donor corneas, trained 152 clinicians, published 202 paper and gave 892 educational presentations. In 2019 alone, 5,736 patients were cured of blindness. Stories of the many patients whose lives were transformed thanks to free treatment at the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute can be watched on the Tej Kohli Foundation YouTube channel.

This incarnation of the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute was uniquely adept at solving the problems of reaching people living with blindness or visual impairment in the hard-to-reach rural areas where 66% of Indians live. But after making tens of thousands of treatment interventions to end the poverty blindness in India, from 2020 the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute is refocusing its efforts on the development of an affordable, accessible and scalable solution to corneal blindness.

Whilst direct interventions can change lives by taking existing treatments and cures into underserved communities, in order to eradicate corneal blindness worldwide will require new treatments and solutions derived from scientific and technological innovations. By evolving into a multidisciplinary global hub for innovation, the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute mission is a world where nobody is blind because they cannot afford or access treatment.

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