ISSN: 2578-6520
Emeritus Professor
Director of Thrombosis Research
Lillehei Heart Institute
University of Minnesota
United States of America
Dr. Gundu HR Rao is an Emeritus Professor & Director of Thrombosis Research at Lillehei Heart Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. 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 40 years. 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. Dr. Rao's research interests include platelet physiology and pharmacology; cellular activation signaling mechanisms; anti-platelet drug delivery and platelet–biomaterial interactions; pathophysiology and prevention of coronary artery disease; and biochemical and molecular markers for risk assessment for type-2 diabetes.
