The Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation is making large-scale high-volume treatment interventions to cure blindness as part of the United Nations SGD1 mission to end poverty in all its forms everywhere. 1. Technology Transfer One of the fastest ways to reduce inter-country inequality and reduce poverty is to spread modern, up-to-date technologies to the developing world at affordable prices. This is called ‘technology transfer’.

Viruses come in many forms: DNA and RNA, double-stranded and single-stranded. Approximately two thirds of the viruses that infect humans are RNA viruses. Surprisingly, there are very few treatments available for RNA viruses. The RNA therapies that do exist typically use small molecules to interfere with viral replication. …

In March 2021 I launched the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation to take low-cost cataract surgeries out into poor and remote communities in Nepal, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Myanmar, India and China. Working with my co-founder Dr Sanduk Ruit, I hope to cure 300,000 of cataract blindness by 2026. The prevalence…

Tej Kohli is founder of the Tej Kohli Foundation which is committed to ending needless poverty-driven blindness in low income countries. Tej Kohli is also co-founder of the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation which is dedicated to making grassroots interventions to cure cataract blindness in poor communities. Tej Kohli is…

Exponential growth is important. In May 2020 I wrote a #TejTalks blog about how my Kohli Ventures investment vehicle is focused on getting in early on exponential growth opportunities. Then in an interview on CityAM.com …

When Murathi Parsi of the Kapilavastu District of Nepal went blind, surgery was out of reach. Despite living only one hour away from an eye hospital, the family simply did not have NRS 8,000 (approx USD 70) needed for her surgery. Her husband and her son, both daily wage earners…

95 million people worldwide are affected by blindness or severe visual impairment due to cataracts according to the WHO. Nearly 90% of the world’s blind live in the poorest countries in the world. Cataracts in particular are disproportionately prevalent in low-and-middle-income countries, where they account for 50% of all blindness…

Leber Congenital Amaurosis is an eye disorder that primarily affects the retina, which is the specialized tissue at the back of the eye that detects light and colour. People with the disorder typically have severe visual impairment beginning in infancy, making Leber’s the number one genetic cause of blindness in…