VISITING FACULTY • Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Division, Stanford Medical Center, Stanford University, CA, USA • The National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped (NIMH), Manovikas Nagar, Secunderabad 2005 to 2006

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE 1. Primary tissue culture, Embryonic spinal cord cultures (rat model) 2. Perfusion studies of Isolated organs like heart, intestine and uterus of rat and rabbit 3. Immunohistochemistry and double labeling, TUNEL assay, Vital staining. 4. Stereotaxy. 5. Microscopy –CLSM (Confocal microscopy) and epi fluorescence microscopy, NIH-Image analysis. 6. Flowcytometry (BD-FACS) 7. Hematology. 8. Intra-ocular and intra-collicular microinjections. 9. Establishing stem cell cultures from peripheral blood, bone marrow, cord blood and postmortem human eyeballs. 10. Quality control of clean rooms and cellular products