A Brief Biosketch of N. Rama Krishna
Employment:
- 1979-85: Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, UAB.
- 1984-Present: Director, NMR Core Facility
- 1985-92: Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, UAB; Scientist, Cancer Center.
- 1992-Present: Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, UAB. Senior Scientist, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Scientist, Center for AIDS Research.
Awards, Honors, and Professional Activities
- Leukemia Society of America Scholar, 1982-87.
- Grand Awards Judge, 45th International Science and Engineering Fair, Birmingham, AL, 1994.
- Invited to Serve on the NIH Special Study Section 7, 1990.
- Member, NIH Special Study Section 7 for NMR/MRI/MRS Instrumentation, 1992.
- External Reviewer, NIH Oral Biology Medicine Study Section-I, 1995.
- Member, NCI Site Visit Team, the Wistar Institute Cancer Center, the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1996.
- External Reviewer, National Science Foundation (MCB, Chemistry and Shared Instrumentation Programs)
- External Reviewer, American Chemical Society PRF Grant Program
- The FASEB Journal selected as its Cover Picture (March 1, 1994 Isssue, Vol.8, No.3) the NMR Solution Structure of Trypsin Modulating Oostatic Factor (Tmof) determined by Dr. Krishna's Lab.
- Editor (with Dr. L. Berliner At Ohio State) “Modern Techniques in Protein NMR", Volume 16, Biological Magnetic Resonance Series, Plenum Press, New York, (1998).
- Editor (with Dr. L. Berliner At Ohio State), “Structure Computation and Dynamics in Protein NMR”, Volume 17, Biological Magnetic Resonance Series, Plenum Press, New York, (1999)
- External Reviewer, The Israel Science Foundation, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
- Member, NCI site visit team (subcommittee C), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, June 2000.
- Editor (with L. Berliner), "Protein NMR for the Millennium", Biological Magnetic Resonance series, Volume 20, Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, (2003).
- Member, PPG Review Panel, NCI Subcommittee C, June 2001
- Member, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI/NIH) Special Emphasis Panel, 2003
- Session Chairman, "Small Molecule/Protein Interactions and Screening by NMR", SMASH 2006 International Conference, Burlington, Vermont, 2006
- Nature Editorial (NATURE 452:822-823 (2008)) on the STD-NMR study of receptor recognition by rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) published in J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 130:3669-3675 (2008)
- Reviewer, ACS-PRF Grant Program, 2004
- Reviewer, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Grants Program, Vienna, Austria, 2004
- Reviewer (Mail), NIH Scientific Review Group ZRG1 BCMB-P, July 2009
- Member, NIH/NIDDK Special Emphasis Panel ZDK1 GRB-7 (O2)P, August 2009