Gundu H R RaoEmeritus Professor, Dr Gundu H. R. Rao has spent forty years as a faculty member of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Minnesota. He was the Director of Thrombosis Research at the Lillehei Heart Institute and adjunct faculty of th Institute for Engineering Medicine as well as Anesthesiology. For four decades, he conducted research on morphology, ultrastructure, biochemistry, physiology, and pharmacology of blood platelets. During these years of research, he presented his work at various national and international conferences as well as published his work in over 300 peer reviewed journals. In early 1990, he obtained a research grant from the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis (ISTH, USA), and started a professional society, 'South Asian Society on Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis' at the University of Minnesota. He organized international conferences on topics associated with thrombosis and hemostasis in India every other year from 1994. He also has edited and published books on topics related to this area of public interest. Read More Read Less