Dr. Mithun Santra is a Principal Investigator (DHR NRI Fellow) at the Advanced Eye Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India. He completed his postdoctoral training (2021–2025) at the UPMC Vision Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA. He earned his B.Sc. in Bioinformatics and M.Sc. in Human Genomics from Panjab University, Chandigarh, and received his Ph.D. in Pharmacologic Vitreolysis from PGIMER in 2020. His research focuses on translational ophthalmology, including corneal fibrosis and regeneration, vitreoretinal diseases, trabecular meshwork fibrosis in glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, ocular neovascularization, regenerative medicine, extracellular vesicles, and protein-engineered therapeutics.