Personal Profile of Prof. Dr. Krishna R. Dronamraju

Dr. Krishna Dronamraju honored by the President of India, the Honorable K.R. Narayanan.

Name: Krishna R. Dronamraju

Present Position & Contact Information
President, Foundation for Genetic Research
P.O. Box 27701-0, Houston, Texas 77227, USA, or

For Express Mail or by Courier,
4212 San Felipe Street, Houston, Texas 77027, USA.

Phone: (713) 816-3681, Fax: (713) 667-5881, and
Email: kdronamraj@aol.com

Concurrent Positions:
Formerly Advisor, Biotechnology, US Government,

Honorary Professor, Albert Schweitzer International University, Geneva, Switzerland;

Invited Professor, University of Paris, France;

Honorary Visiting Professor, Andhra University, India;

Honorary Research Fellow, University of London, U.K.; and

Chairman, International Advisory Committee, Chemtech Corp., and
Adjunct Professor, Pennsylvania State University.

Author of following books:

(1) “Biotechnology, Sustaining Biodiversity and IPR”,Foreword by M.S. Swaminathan (in preparation, 2007).

(2) “JBS Haldane, A Scientific Biography”, in preparation.

(3) “Haldane’s Popular Science”, (Foreword by Sir Arthur C. Clarke), Oxford University Press (in press 2008).

(4) "Malaria: Genetic and Evolutionary Aspects", Springer, New York, 2006.

(4) "Infectious Disease and Host-Pathogen Evolution", Cambridge University Press, U.K. 2004.

(5) "Biological Wealth and Other Essays",(Foreword by M.S. Swaminathan),World Scientific, London, 2002.

(6) "Biological and Social Issues in Biotechnology Sharing", Ashgate, U.K. 1998.

(7) "Science and Society". University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland, 1998.

(8) "Haldane's Daedalus Revisited", (Foreword by Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg), Oxford University
Press,1995.

(9) "If I am to be Remembered, The Life and work of Julian Huxley", World Scientific, London, 1993.

(10) "The History and Development of Human Genetics", World Scientific, London, 1992.

(11) "Selected Genetic papers of JBS Haldane", (Foreword by James F. Crow), Garland Publishing, New York,
1990.

(12) "The Foundations of Human Genetics", C.C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill., 1989.

(13) "Cleft Lip and Palate: Aspects of Reproductive Biology", C.C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill., 1986.

(14) "Haldane: The Life and Work of JBS Haldane with special reference to India", Aberdeen Univ. Press,UK
1985.

(15) "Haldane and Modern Biology", Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

(a) Present research interests and activities:

(1) Threats to biodiversity in the tropics - (Laurance, Wright, Raven, Swaminathan, Shiva, Mgbeoji, and Patrick Tierney's "Darkness in El Dorado")

(2) Biotechnology and biodiversity

(3) Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and global Biodiversity

(4) IPR in human genetics and genomics

(5) Infectious disease, especially Malaria: Genetics and Evolution (Vaccine research)

(6) Sharing technologies between the U.S. and India

(7) Origin of life, chemical evolution

(8) Origins and development of genetics, and

(9) The Biography of JBS Haldane and his popular scientific writings.

(b) Past research

(1) Sympatric speciation and lepidopteran behavior

(2) Plant biometry, meristic variation

(3) Nest building activity in solitary wasps (Sceliphron Spp)

(4) Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate, and fetal mortality

(5) Human Y-linkage of hairy pinnae (Ph.D. thesis)

(6) Human cousin marriage, inbreeding in Andhra Pradesh

(7) Sex-ratio in the newborn and immunological implications

(8) Scientific Biographies of JBS Haldane and Julian Huxley