Articles from February 2025

Simran Sarin banner downtown Iowa City

Cornea researcher featured in University of Iowa campaign

Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Among those featured in the 2025 Dare to Discover campaign, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President of Research, is Simran Sarin, a student in the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, whose research examines cornea transplant outcomes.
Wearing 3D glasses at Aravind Eye Hospital in Pondicherry, India.

Iowa Lions Eye Bank Shares Expertise with Corneal Specialists in India

Saturday, February 1, 2025
When Greg Schmidt arrived in Pondicherry in mid-November of 2024, he was greeted with a banana leaf on his door, welcoming him to the city in southeastern India. Schmidt, director of research and business development at Iowa Lions Eye Bank, traveled to Pondicherry with Dr. Kanwal Singh Matharu, assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Iowa, to visit Aravind Eye Hospital and their eye bank.