Shankar Swaminathan

Shankar Swaminathan

Department of Ophthalmology, Hamilton Eye Institute, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 930 Madison Avenue, Suite 731, Memphis, TN 38163, USA

Biography
He is a pharmaceutical scientist and polymer chemist turned into an eye/vision researcher. He received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the Institute of Chemical Technology, India. He was also a research assistant at the University of Turin, Italy during his Ph.D. He went on to gain research experience in the industry after his Ph.D. specializing in long acting polymeric medical devices for contraception where he was instrumental in getting the product to the scale up stage. Currently, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.