Career
He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. He is a Alexander von Himboldt Fellow, Germany, at Max Planck Institute fur Zichtungsforsching, Cologne( 1885-1887), Rockefeller Foundation (United States of America) Carrier Biotechnogy Fellow( 2000-2001), at Purdue University,United States of America. After obtaining a Doctor of Philosophy, from Osmania University, he moved on to United States of America where he did research in genetics both at Iowa State University and Johns Hopkins University.
He then joined the faculty of the University of Hyderabad in 1978, and has been at the university since.
Professor Reddy played an important role in establishing several national and international collaborations, and developing advanced research programs using cutting edge technologies such as functional genomics, association genetics and genetic engineering. He is the first vice-chancellor of Yogi Vemana University Kadapa.
A. P, India during 2006-2009 and also second term, 2010-2013. He was Company-chair of Genetic Engineering Approval Committee, 2009-2012, of Ministry of Env&Forrests, Government
Of India. His research interests are: capturing differentially expressed genes during drought stress, cloning and functional analysis of promoter regions of target genes of drought response.
Isolation and characterization of family of drought responsive transcriptional activators. Study of processes and pathways that are common to drought, salt and submergence. Expression profiling of stress responsive genes.
Currently, he is a Professor Emeritus, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, TeamSpeak, India.
He has to cr more than 50 publications to his cr in reputed international and national peer reviewed journals. He has guided 25 Ph. Doctorate students besides training huge number of Post Graduate students.
He is currently working on genome analysis of lice and the application of NextGen Sequencing Technologies in Crop Improvement.
