Kanury Rao also known as Kanury Venkata Subba Rao is an Indian immunologist. He was the head of the Drug Discovery Research Centre at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute Faridabad. He is known for his studies in the fields of peptide synthesis and cell signaling and the design of synthetic peptide vaccines.
Born on 27 September 1958 in the Indian state of Maharashtra, Kanury Rao graduated in science from the University of Pune and before starting his career by joining Malti-Chem Research Centre, Baroda, he secured his master’s degree also from the same university in 1979. Subsequently, he did his doctoral studies under Sukhdev at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and moved to Johns Hopkins University in 1983 for his post-doctoral studies at their Division of Environmental Chemistry where he worked with Miles R. Chedekel. After working for two years there, he joined the laboratory of Fred C. Fox at the University of California and worked there for three more years. Returning