Establishment of the Indian Chapter for Asian Eye Genetics Consortium
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Dear Friends, It was my great honor to attend the 73rd Annual Conference of All India Ophthalmological Congress (AIOC) in New Delhi. This was my second attendance after the great meeting in Hyderabad 2007. I can clearly see the growth of participants and importantly the rise of the scientific level. I came to New Delhi with great hope to launch an Indian Chapter of the Asian Eye Genetics Consortium (AEGC, www.asianeyegenetics.org) with Prof. Gyan Prakash (USA) and Prof. S. Natarajan (India). At this AEGC symposium, five speakers introduced the current status of eye genetic study in India, USA, UK, and Japan. Just nine months earlier during the ARVO 2014 meeting, ophthalmologists and scientists from India, USA, Japan, and China launched AEGC to accelerate genetic study for the most populated region on the globe Asia.
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