Dr.Soumyava Basu India

Soumyava Basu is a Uveitis and Retina consultant at L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India and heads the Uveitis services of LVPEI network. He received his medical training from the University of Mumbai, followed by retina fellowships at Shri Ganapati Netralaya, Jalna and L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad. He has also completed three research sabbaticals – with Prof Narsing Rao at Doheny Eye Institute (2010), Prof Jay Ambati at University of Kentucky (2013-14), and Prof Lalita Ramakrishnan at University of Cambridge, UK (2016). Dr. Basu’s research interests lie in understanding the interactions between infection and autoimmunity in the immune-pathogenesis of ocular tuberculosis. He has received multiple competitive research grants, including the DBT Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship in Clinical and Public Health Research (2019-24). He has published widely in peer-reviewed international journals and has been a reviewer for nearly all major ophthalmology journals. Dr. Basu has been actively involved in framing the Indian Extra-pulmonary TB (INDEX-TB) guidelines. He has also been the principal investigator for several multi-centric clinical trials.