image description: Left to right: Susan Patz, Arnall Patz’s daughter; Santhalakshmi Rangaramanujam, Kannan’s mother; Kate Poole, Patz’s granddaughter; Agaram Rangaramanujam, Kannan’s father; Ellen Patz, Patz’s wife; Kannan; Sujatha Kannan, M.D., Kannan’s wife; Kannan’s three children: Gokul, Harini and Vishnu.
April 27, 2017 / Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute’s Robert H. and Clarice Smith Building
Kannan Rangaramanujam, Ph.D., received the Arnall Patz Distinguished Professorship,
after a talk about the life of the late Arnall Patz, M.D., given by his daughter Susan Patz.
Kannan, who is co-director of the Center for Nanomedicine, then spoke about the promise of
nanotechnology-based targeted drug delivery systems to treat a variety of seemingly unrelated
diseases that share one common attribute: inflammation. He showed how therapies targeting
inflammation can have a profound impact on AMD, diabetic retinopathy and corneal diseases,
making early detection and therapy possible.
