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Gundu H. R. Rao obtained his B.Sc degree from the University of Mysore and B.Sc (Hons) and M.Sc., degrees from the Poona University. He worked for an year with the Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Bangalore and five years at the Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore. He immigrated to the USA in 1965 and specialized in grain storage technology and obtained his Ph.D degree from the Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. After working as a post-doctoral fellow at the Texas A& M University and University of Minnesota, he joined department of Pharmacology as an NIH fellow to get training in toxicology. He has been with the University of Minnesota Medical School for over 34 years. He is a naturalized US citizen and a tenured professor in the department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology. He also has faculty appointments in Anesthesiology, Lillehei Heart Institute, and Biomedical Engineering Institute. He is an author or co-author of over 300 publications in the field of interest (thrombosis and stroke). In the past, he has consulted various medical device development companies in the Twin Cities including 3M, Medtronic Inc, St Jude Medical, Medical CV Inc, Vascular Solutions, APP Tech, Endocardial Solutions, PlaCor Inc., Medical Innovations Inc, Hypertension Diagnostics Inc. and Boston Scientific on problems related to biocompatibility, thrombosis and stroke.
He was the visiting Professor in the Royal College of Surgeons, England in the summer of 1987 and in the Thrombosis Research Institute, London in 1988. He taught one summer at the Institute of Human Physiology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. He also served as senior consultant to the Government of India, for three successive years (1990-93), under a United Nations program called TOKTEN. He also served as a visiting professor in the Institute of Human Physiology, University of Padua, Italy during 1995-96. He is currently listed as the Senior Fulbright Specialist. He started a society (South Asian Society on Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis, SASAT) to create awareness on vascular diseases in 1993. Since then he is organizing international symposiums on Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis in India, every other year. He is on the board of many medical, scientific and device development organizations. He is on the scientific advisory board of professional societies including North American Thrombosis Forum (USA), International Union of Angiology (France) and International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis and Hemostasis (USA)
Books Published: Handbook of Platelet Physiology and Pharmacology. Gundu HR Rao, Editor, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. 1999.
Coronary Artery Disease in South Asians: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Prevention. Gundu HR Rao and Vijay Kakkar, Editors, Jaypee Medical Publishers, New Delhi, India. 2001. Coronary Artery Disease: Risk Promoters, Pathophysiology and Prevention. Rao Gundu HR Rao and S. Thanikachalam, Editors, Jaypee Medical Publishers, New Delhi, India. 2005.
Handbook of Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine. Gundu HR Rao, Ted Eastlund and Latha Jagnnathan. Jaypee Medical Publishers, 2006 Type-2 Diabetes in South Asians: Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Prevention. V.Mohan and Gundu HR Rao. Jaypee Medical Publishers, New Delhi. 2007
Director: Founding Member and Director on the Board: Karnataka Hybrid Micro Devices, Electronic City, Bangalore. |
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Manipal ACUNOVA (Discover-development-therapeutics), Bangalore, India |
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HYPERLINK "http://www.acunovalife.com" www.acunovalife.com |
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Institute for Strategic Biotechnology, Health and Training (ISBHT), Bangalore, India |
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HYPERLINK "http://www.avitabiotech.com" www.avitabiotech.com |
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AVITA Bio-tech Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India |
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HYPERLINK "http://www.avitabiotech.com" www.avitabiotech.com |
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Biotech_Mysore, Mysore, India. |
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Genesis Medical Systems, Hyderabad, India |
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Thrombosis Research Institute, Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore, India |
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Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, India. |
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Institute of Immunohematology, Mumbai, India. |
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Reliance Life Sciences, Mumbai, India. |
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Medical Innovation International, Rochester, Minnesota. |
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Triesta, (HCG) Bangalore |
| ARKIOM, Minneapolis, MN. Minneapolis-based company that facilitates the development of websites and promotes on- line business solutions. |
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G.B Pant Medical College and Hospitals, Gangaram Hospitals, New Delhi. |
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Post Graduate Institute, Chandigarh, |
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KEM Hospital and IIIH, Mumbai |
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Manipal Health Academy, Manipal Heart Foundation, Bangalore |
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Mahavir Jain Heart Hospital, Bangalore. |
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Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore |
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Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai |
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Madras Research Foundation, Chennai |
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Sri Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum |
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Care Heart Hospital and Research Institute, Hyderabad. |
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Health Care Global (HCG), Bangalore |
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Medipoint, Chennai |
Education and Service:
Founder, Secretary General, South Asian Society on Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis HYPERLINK "http://www.sasat.org" www.sasat.org
Member, Minneapolis-University Rotary Club, Minneapolis, MN HYPERLINK "http://www.blood-biosafety.com" www.blood-biosafety.com |
Director:
Thrombosis Research, Lillehei Heart Institute, University of Minnesota.
Blood Biocompatibility Laboratory; Biomedical Engineering Institute, University of Minnesota. HYPERLINK "http://www.blood-biomaterials.com" www.blood-biomaterials.com
Chief Executive Office:
Indus Biomedical Associates, Bangalore, India
Chief Technical Officer:
Indus Biomedical Associates, Maryland, USA |
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