Srinivasa K. Rao PhD, MSc

Dr. Srinivasa K. Rao is a biotechnology, life sciences, biomedical scientist with experience in teaching, basic research, R&D, training, liaison and business development. Currently he is popularizing, farming and processing quinoa in India with the support of farmers in India and Bolivia. He edited a book Quinoa: Nutritional & Health Benefits.

He launched a brand, Dr. Quinoa in the Indian market to make the grain more affordable. Dr. Rao has teaching experience in cell & molecular biology, developmental biology and biotechnology at City University of New York (CUNY). His Ph.D. thesis from the University of Paris, France in 1988 was on the molecular genetics of hemoglobinpathies. His post-doctoral work at Columbia University & the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York was on gene expression and regulation. He was a PI at the LIJMC (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) worked in matrix biology and molecular diseases created an enzyme detection kit. Dr. Rao published over 30 peer reviewed scientific papers.