Hemant S. Pawar, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Scientist, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Research Focus

Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness and with more than 60 million people blind from glaucoma worldwide there is a clear need for major advances in diagnostics, treatment, and understanding of the mechanisms by which disease develops and progresses. My research program is focused on the genetics of primary open-angle glaucoma and angle-closure glaucoma.

Office: 734-936-9681
Lab: 734-764-0059
Fax: 734-615-0542
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E-mail: hpawar@med.umich.edu

Ph.D.

Biochemistry
National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India

Postdoctoral

Genetics
Kellogg Eye Center
University of Michigan

My postdoctoral research focus was on gene localization and cloning using the positional cloning strategy. Some of my work in the past has led to the discovery of a gene causing posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy, which led to important new insights into disease mechanism. I have also worked extensively on studying the glaucoma genes for variations in their protein coding DNA sequences in patients that have primary open angle glaucoma of various subtypes.