Biography
Dr Soumyava Basu is a uveitis and retina consultant at L V Prasad Eye Institute and heads the uveitis services of the LVPEI network.
He received his medical training from the University of Mumbai, followed by retina fellowships at Shri Ganapati Netralaya, Jalna, and LVPEI. He has also completed three research sabbaticals, with Prof Narsing Rao at the Doheny Eye Institute in 2010, with Prof Jay Ambati at the University of Kentucky from 2013 to 2014, and with Prof Lalita Ramakrishnan at the University of Cambridge, UK, in 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 multicenter clinical trials.