Regulatory Review and Approval Processes Under Current US Guidelines and Across the Globe
PowerPoint slides Gundu H.R. Rao
Start Date
4-21-2009 10:00 AM
End Date
4-21-2009 10:30 AM
Description
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 a 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 PhD 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 the 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 and 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, ATS Medical Inc, Hypertension Diagnostics Inc. and Boston Scientific on problems related to blood biocompatibility, thrombosis and stroke.
He was the visiting Professor in the Royal College of Surgeons, England in the summer of 1987, Department of Surgery King’s College in 1988 and in the Thrombosis Research Institute, London in 1989. 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 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 has edited five books: Handbook of Platelet Physiology and Pharmacology 1999, Coronary Artery Disease in South Asians: Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Prevention, 2001, and Coronary Artery Disease in Indians: Risk Factors, Pathophysiology and Prevention, 2005, Handbook on Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine, 2006 and Type 2 Diabetes in South Asians: Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Prevention, 2006. He is on the advisory board of many medical, scientific and device development organizations. He is also a Senior Specialist in the Fulbright Program.
Regulatory Review and Approval Processes Under Current US Guidelines and Across the Globe
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 a 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 PhD 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 the 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 and 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, ATS Medical Inc, Hypertension Diagnostics Inc. and Boston Scientific on problems related to blood biocompatibility, thrombosis and stroke.
He was the visiting Professor in the Royal College of Surgeons, England in the summer of 1987, Department of Surgery King’s College in 1988 and in the Thrombosis Research Institute, London in 1989. 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 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 has edited five books: Handbook of Platelet Physiology and Pharmacology 1999, Coronary Artery Disease in South Asians: Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Prevention, 2001, and Coronary Artery Disease in Indians: Risk Factors, Pathophysiology and Prevention, 2005, Handbook on Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine, 2006 and Type 2 Diabetes in South Asians: Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Prevention, 2006. He is on the advisory board of many medical, scientific and device development organizations. He is also a Senior Specialist in the Fulbright Program.
