Avinash Soundararajan                  Research Assistant Professor, Jan 2026 - Present

                                                         Postdoctoral Fellow, Nov 2019 - Dec 2025

CTSI Postdoc Challenge Grant 2020

Saving Sight Indiana Grant 2020 (Travel Award)

ARVO Travel Award 2021 

AOPT Travel Award 2021 

Glick Eye Institute Special Recognition Award 2022

Biochemistry Research Day - Postdoctoral Fellow Category - Best Poster Award 2022

Stark Neurosciences Symposium Oral Presentation Winner - 2026

Knights Templar Eye Foundation (KETF) - Career Starter Grant 2026

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Anoop Magesh                                Former Lab Analyst, Currently Medical Student, Apr 2022-

ASBMB Summer Research Fellowship 2022

IMPRS Summer Research and Symposium 2024 - Honorable Mention Recipients​

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Anusha Shivashankar                      Graduate Student, June 2024-

ARVO 2024 - Finalist of Member-in-training Best Poster Competition

ARVO 2025 Travel Award

SNRI 2025 - Best Oral Presentation Award

SNRI 2026 - Ocular Neurobiology Travel Award

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Rodahina Pasteurin                         Graduate Student, June 2024-

Heartland Vision Research Symposium 2024 - Best Poster Presentation​

Saving Sight Indiana Grant 2025 (Travel Award)

SNRI 2025 - Best Oral Presentation Award

SNRI 2026 - Ocular Neurobiology Travel Award

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Srimathi Raghavan                           Postdoctoral Fellow, October 2024-

Saving Sight Indiana Grant 2025 (Travel Award)

Heartland Vision Research Symposium 2025 - Best Presentation​ Award

ISER-Brightfocus Glaucoma Conference 2025 - Poster Prize

Saving Sight Indiana Grant 2026 (Travel Award)

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Adalyn DeWitt                                 Medical Student - Research Fellow - June 2025-

IUSM 2026 Spring Student Research Symposium - Best Medicine Poster

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FORMER LAB MEMBERS:

Ting Wang                                       Jun 2020-2024

Sigma Xi Research-In-Aid Grant (Spring 2021)

AOPT Travel Award 2021 

ARVO Travel Award 2021

Graduate and Professional Educational Grant 2022 

IUPUI Graduate Student Travel Fellowship Award 2022 

Saving Sight Indiana ARVO Travel Award 2022

Biochemistry Research Day - Graduate Student Category - Best Poster Award 2022

ARVO Murray and Jeane Johnstone Travel Award 2023

XVI AOPT Biennial Meeting Best Poster Award 2023

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Krishna Jayasankar  Carmel High School Summer Student - 2021, 2022, 2023

Heartland Vision Research Symposium 2023  - Rising Star Award for best presentation

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Shivendra Singh                               T35 IMPRS Medical Summer Student   2020- 

Sigma Xi Research-In-Aid Grant (Fall 2021)

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Sai Supriya Vuda                               Lab Analyst                 Sep 2019- May 2021

AOPT Travel Award 2019

ARVO Travel Award 2020

Vision Science Day 2020-Best poster award

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Sachin Anil Ghag                              Postbac Trainee          Jan 2020- Jun 2021

ARVO Travel Award 2021 recipient

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