page_title: V. S. Sangwan
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: V. S. Sangwan / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: MDU Main Entrance Gate
context_page_description: Virender Singh Sangwan is an Indian ophthalmologist and the Dr. Paul Dubord Chair professor and director of the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad. Known for his research on limbal stem cells, Sangwan is the founder secretary and an adviser of the Uveitis Society of India. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 2006.
context_section_description: Born in the north Indian state of Haryana, Virender S. Sangwan graduated in medicine from Maharshi Dayanand University in 1986 and completed his MS in ophthalmology in 1991. Subsequently, he did a fellowship at L. V. Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) on cornea and anterior segment surgery and during his stay there, Gullapalli Nageswara Rao, the founder of the institute, advised him about the opportunity to join Orbis International as an acting medical director at Orbis Flying Eye Hospital which he accepted. He held the position for over 18 months and left for another fellowship program on ocular immunology and uveitis at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, an associate of Harvard Medical School under the supervision of Charles Stephen Foster, who would later found the Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institution. Returning to India, he re-joined LVPEI as a cornea specialist, became an associate director and a director and heads SRUJANA Centre for Innovation as well as the Center for Ocular Regeneration, a joint venture of LVPEI and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds the Dr.Paul Dubord Chair in Cornea at LVPEI and is as an adjunct associate professor at University of Rochester.
  Virender Sangwan is married to Vandana who is a dental surgeon and the couple has two children, Sonalika and Sahil.
caption: Entrance to Maharshi Dayanand University
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