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NEWS ABOUT TEJ KOHLI CORNEA INSTITUTE
For the latest endeavours regarding curing needless blindness across the world, visit: https://tejkohliruit.com.
Here you can read and watch the stories of those who have been successfully cured of needless blindness.
To succeed in eliminating preventable blindness from poor and remote communities by 2030 will require unique multi-disciplinary collaboration. Only by telling and sharing stories our progress and successes can we surface opportunities for new partnerships and novel innovations.
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May 12, 2022
Changing Lives — How One Surgery Can Change a Nation
Across the world, many developing countries such as Nepal have a population of people who struggle to access...
December 16, 2021
Meet Dr Sanduk Ruit, the Barefoot Surgeon who’s cured 130,000 of blindness
As the recipient of Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize for healing the sight of hundreds of thousands...
January 27, 2021
Tej Kohli: Profile Of A $100m AI Investor
Tej Kohli is an artificial intelligence and robotics investor who has committed $100m of funds into Rewired. Tej Kohli first rose to prominence in 2006 after...
February 21, 2020
Tej Kohli Foundation Seeks to Incubate New Projects That Can Eliminate Corneal Blindness
Will establish a new incubator to back scientific projects and commercial ventures that are targeting new solutions...
December 19, 2019
5,736 of the World’s Poorest People Received the Gift of Sight in 2019
The Tej Kohli Cornea Institute welcomed 56,083 outpatients in 2019 and completed 11,744 surgical procedures...
September, 2019
Joe Wallen discovers how corneal transplants are bringing hope to those living in the shadows.
Blindness is endemic among those with XP as the cornea becomes increasingly damaged with exposure to the sun...
December 16, 2021
We have to cure blindness if we want to reduce extreme poverty
The United Nations’ number-one goal is to eradicate extreme poverty globally...
December 16, 2021
Meet Tej Kohli, a man on a mission to heal the world’s blind
The entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist Tej Kohli has teamed up with the ‘God of Sight’ Dr Sanduk Ruit...
April 22, 2020
UK science is boosted by the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute by a series of grants to support UK innovation
The Institute is building on its track record for funding research in the USA and making direct treatment interventions in India...
January 17, 2020
Tej Kohli Foundation Moves One Step Closer to the Regeneration of Corneal Tissue
Project aims to bridge the gap between the high cost of treatment for corneal blindness and the unmet medical need...
December 9, 2019
FT Health Special Report: Gene therapy offers new vision to battle blindness
A project funded by the Tej Kohli Foundation is working on a liquid form that sets as a gel at body temperature and can be modified...
October 10, 2019
Tej Kohli Foundation advocates a scalable and affordable solution to end corneal blindness
Says game-changing biotech solutions are needed to accelerate a global mission to eradicate corneal blindness...
December 16, 2021
How the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation will cure 500,000 of blindness by 2026
With a mission to cure blindness by direct intervention, Tej Kohli and Dr Sanduk Ruit’s Foundation...
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March 10, 2021
Learning Lessons With Tej Kohli
The tech tycoon’s legacy is built on hard work, determination, and some savvy investments...
March 3, 2020
Tej Kohli Foundation Turns to Social Impact Entertainment to Raise Awareness of Blindness
Short film 'Father Will I See Again?" highlights the pervasive impact of poverty blindness on younger people in India...
December 27, 2019
Tej Kohli Foundation Announces $14 Million to End Poverty Blindness
The London-based Tej Kohli Foundation has announced a $14 million commitment to the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute...
September 5, 2019
Massachusetts Eye and Ear in Boston Receives $2 Million for Corneal Research
The Tej Kohli Foundation has pledged $2 million to accelerate innovative and collaborative research into corneal disease...