children with developmental delays and disabilities. Education and Research Scientists from L V Prasad Eye Institute are listed amongst the world's top 2% by Stanford University. It is an affiliate hospital of Harvard Medical School.It has academic and research linkages with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BITS Pilani, IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Hyderabad, University of Hyderabad, GITAM, University of Sheffield, University of Bradford. Centers LVPEI network has 275 eye-care centres across the states of Karnataka, Odisha, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh: Main center in Banjara Hills, named after Kallam Anji Reddy the founder of Dr.Reddy Labs. 3 tertiary centers in Visakhapatnam, Bhubaneswar and Vijayawada. 26 secondary centers 245 primary care centers The secondary and primary care centers provide medical facilities to the remotest rural areas of the country. Eye bank As of 2020, LVPEI Eye Bank Network has been performing over 2,000 corneal transplant surgeries every year. As of February 2023, total corneas collected were 1,19,279 and over 69,964 corneal transplant surgeries have been performed at the institute, which may be the highest at a single institute anywhere in the world. The RIEB set up the Hyderabad Cornea Preservation Medium Centre which uses a McKarey Kauffman (MK) Medium. Awards Greenberg Prize – End Blindness 2020 Sarojini Triloknath National Award 2020 See also Genome Valley References Ophthalmology organizations Healthcare in Hyderabad, India Hospitals in Hyderabad, India Hospitals in Visakhapatnam Eye care in India Hospitals established in 1987 1987 establishments in Andhra Pradesh