Tej Kohli: Bioengineered Cornea Are About To Enter The Clinical Realm. What Does That Mean?

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Tej Kohli: Bioengineered Cornea Are About to Enter The Clinical Realm. What Does That Mean? Tej Kohli | 5 SEPTEMBER 2020

Tej Kohli is the founder of the not-for-profit Tej Kohli Foundation whose ‘Rebuilding You’ philosophy supports the development of scientific and technological solutions to major global health challenges whilst also making interventions to rebuild people and communities around the world. Tej Kohli is also an impact investor who backs growth-stage artificial intelligence and robotics ventures through the Kohli Ventures investment vehicle. Twitter @MrTejKohli. A watershed point in corneal transplant surgery is rapidly being approached. Transplantation using human donor cornea has served us well for years and innovations in surgery have helped to improve outcomes for people with blindness or severe visual impairment. But a chronic worldwide shortage of donor tissue, and the expense and technical challenges of creating and maintaining vital eye bank infrastructure, means that corneal transplant surgery using donor cornea is simply inaccessible to the majority of the world’s population, particularly in lower income countries where corneal blindness is at its most pervasive.

Page | 1 Tej Kohli is a technologist and investor who is also the founder of the not-for-profit Tej Kohli Foundation. Tej Kohli regularly writes #TejTalks blogs on Medium about subjects including blindness, inequality, poverty, global health and technology transfer. Tej Kohli also blogs on Ghost and The Motley Fool about subjects including real estate, cryptocurrency, deep tech and stock market investing. Tej Kohli also shares his daily wisdom, commentary and insights on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook as @MrTejKohli. #TejTalks can be downloaded from Issuu.


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