Sankara Nethralaya. A Mission For Vision

CHENNAI: Sankara Nethralaya on Saturday honored some of its patrons and well-wishers by presenting them with the Friends of Sankara Nethralaya Award.
The recipients included violin maestro Sri. T.N. Krishnan, who performed 10 benefit concerts across the U.S. in 2007 to mobilize funds for Sankara Nethralaya. His son Sri. Sriram Krishnan performed 10 Jugalbandhi Concerts this [...]

On 20.12.08 Sri Maha Periyava Aradhana function was held at the New Auditorium in the New Research Building.

Visitor Mr.Bhagirath Gopal and Mr.Vikram from Sir Ratan Tata Trust visited Sankara Nethralaya for evaluation of Phase 3 of the fellowship program sponsored by SRTT.

Bramarishiji Guravanand Swami Guru Ji Visited Sankara Nethralya and blessed the Sankara Nethralaya Family on 13.12.08

Dr Aravind Neelakandan, University of Southwestern Medical School, USA visited Sankara Nethralaya on 11.12.2008 and gave a guest lecture on “Glaucoma Surgery Update” At 5.30 Pm at the New Auditorium in the New Research Building.

On 4th December, there was a pooja (poornahuti havan) at 3 pm in which Dr Sujatha Guha, Medical Director of Sankara Nethralaya, Kolkata along with her husband participated.  On 5th December Grihapravesh was done at 11am.  The entire programme was organized by Shri. Hanuman Prasad Agarwala, a well wisher of Sankara Nethralaya.

Prof. T N Krishnan and his son Sriram Krishnan visited Sankara Nethralaya on 11.12.08. There was a Jugalbandhi concert which was held in the auditorium on 27th December.  The following artistes performed to a packed auditorium.  The programme was well appreciated.
Snehasish Mozumder (Mandolin)
Sriram Krishnan (Violin)
Subrata Bhattacharya (Tabla)
Rajasekar (Mrudangam)

Dr Syed M Noorwez, Ph.D, Res. Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology from University of Florida visited Sankara Nethralaya on 29.11.2008 and gave a guest lecture on “Increased yield of mutant rhodopsin aby calnexin in pharmacologically modulated conditions”.