Career
His major contributions were in the areas of comparative endocrinology, the regulation of male fertility, and the use of non-human primates in biomedical research. At a national level, he worked closely with the Indian Council of Medical Research and the Ministry of Health, Government of India in research on human reproduction and family planning programmes in India. Prasad began his career as a lecturer in Zoology at Central College, Bangalore, University of Mysore in 1945.
In 1955, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and began doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin.
From 1959 to 1977, he was Professor of Zoology at the University of Delhi, where he established a research group in the Department of Zoology that was recognized internationally in reproductive physiology. During this period, he assumed advisory roles at the national level
From 1977 to 1983, he worked with the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. At this time, he was also involved in coordination of research and research training at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, the Institute for Research Reproduction in Bombay, and the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.
