Janardan Kumar
Becker College, USA
Biography
Janardan Kumar, PhD is a Professor of Microbiology and Chemistry at Becker College. He served as a Chair of the Natural Science Department. Prior to joining Becker College, while working as a Research Associate/Assistant Professor at Duke University, he first proposed at the ARVO international conference, Fort Lauderdale, that the Rho-GTPase activation mediated through LPA and thrombin perfusion caused increase outflow resistance in porcine eyes. In 2001 while at Duke University, he filed for intellectual property in the U.S. on RGD-containing peptides as safe therapeutic alternatives for glaucoma therapy. The same molecule has been filed for patent in Japan, with additional international applications to follow.