International Genome Editing & Engineering Conference

 Krishna Dronamraju

Krishna Dronamraju

President, Foundation for Genetic Research,
Houston, Texas
USA

Biography

Dr. Krishna Dronamraju is the author of twenty books and two hundred papers in Genetics and Biotechnology . He earned his Ph.D. in Human Genetics while working with the famous scientist JBS Haldane at the Indian Statistical Institute. He served on the NIH’s Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee for several years. Dr. Dronamraju has been an advisor to the U.S. Government in the area of biotechnology and genetics for several years. He was a member of the U.S. Presidential delegation to India in 2000. He chaired and delivered plenary lectures at numerous international conferences in Genomics, Genetics and Biotechnology. Dr. Dronamraju’s research activities include an evaluation of the impact of genetic revolution and genome analysis on human populations. He is an invited speaker and chairman of conferences in USA, U.K., India, France, China, Mexico, Italy and other countries. He is President of the Foundation for Genetic Research in Houston, Visiting Professor of the University of Paris, and an Honorary Research Fellow of University College, London.


Research Interest

Dronamraju's research covers the visits of several species of lepidoptera to different colored flowers of Lantana camara reported the discovery of a species-specific pattern of color preference behavior by pollinating insects. He did research in human genetics in India. In 1966, Dronamraju completed his Ph.D from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. He studied under J. B. S. Haldane. The topic of his doctoral thesis was "Genetic Studies of the Andhra Pradesh population". Dronamraju's early research in human genetics (and the independent work of L.D. Saghvi at the Tata Cancer Center in Mumbai) eventually led to the foundation of the Indian Society of Human Genetics. Dronamraju received advanced training at University College, London and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in genetics at the University of Alberta. After he moved to the USA, he continued research on inbreeding in human populations such as the Amish population in Pennsylvania in collaboration with Victor A. McKusick at Johns Hopkins. He also studied the Seneca Indians in New York State and other populations in the US and Canada. He studied the relationship between fetal mortality and the occurrence of oral cleft defects in families. In recent years, Dronamraju's research focused on the history of genetics and human/medical genetics. He has published several books, especially with reference to the contributions of his mentor J. B. S. Haldane.

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