Jeeri R. Reddy

Jeeri Raghava Reddy
Born India
Residence Omaha, Nebraska
Nationality American
Occupation President & CEO JN-International Medical Corporation
Spouse(s) Vara Lakshmi, 2 children

Dr. Jeeri Reddy is an India-born American biologist who became an entrepreneur, developing new generation preventive and therapeutic vaccine for stroke. He has been an active leader in the field of biopharmaceutical industry, commercializing diagnostics and vaccines through JN-International Medical Corporation. He currently serves as Scientific Director and President of the Corporation that created the world's first serological rapid tests for Tuberculosis[1] to facilitate acid-fast bacilli microscopy for the identification of smear-positive and negative cases. Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV was achieved in South East Asia by the use of rapid tests developed by Reddy in 1999. Reddy through his Corporation donated $173,050 worth of Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) for malaria in Zambia[2] and actively participated in prevention of child deaths due to Malaria infections. Reddy was personally invited by the President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush to the White House for Malaria Awareness Day sponsored by US President Malaria Initiative (PMI)[3][4] on Wednesday, April 25, 2007.


A notable inexpensive vaccine developed by Reddy is for Meningococcal meningitis for prevention of Meningitis disease outbreaks in sub-Saharan Africa,[5][6][7][8] His main objective is to facilitate affordable biological medicines to the resource poor countries. His leadership on global health matters in Africa and South East Asia is encouraged by former President Bill Clinton through the Clinton Global Initiative.[9] Every year, Reddy with the help of a French physician Noel Kouame supply childhood vaccines to sub-Saharan Africa for vaccinating one million people for prevention of Bacterial Meningitis, Poliomyelitis, Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis.[10] Reddy has been dedicated in prevention of infectious diseases by promoting public awareness and education about immunization for vaccine-preventable diseases in underdeveloped countries. The people who have helped him to become a businessman are his own classmates and friends from the school of Microbiology and Pharmaceutical Sciences. He has created jobs in Nebraska, USA, Africa and South East Asia through his company. Prior to forming the corporation by him in 1997, Reddy served as microbiologist, visiting professor and laboratory director at ICRISAT,[11] Kansas State University and Central States Research Center, Oakland, Nebraska. Reddy is an inventor on five U.S. & International (PCT) Patents and publishes Journal articles of its research and technologies in the field of human Infectious Diseases and Neurological Disorders.[1][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

Reddy earned a doctoral degree in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Science degree in Biology and Microbiology from India.[19] In June 1993, he was awarded by The Society of Phi Zeta of Kansas State University for his research findings of a vaccine against enteric, respiratory and reproductive disease-causing virus.[20] Life sciences contributions at Research Gate:[21]

References

  1. 1 2 Reddy JR, Kwang J, Lechtenberg KF, Khan NC, Prasad RB, Chengappa MM (January 2002). "An immunochromatographic serological assay for the diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis". Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 25 (1): 21–7. doi:10.1016/S0147-9571(01)00016-9. PMID 11831744.
  2. ↑ RAPIDS Malaria Initiative: 2007 Final Report http://www.pepfar.gov
  3. ↑ http://www.pmi.gov/
  4. ↑ http://jn-vaccines.org/PMI.htm
  5. ↑ Method of producing Meningococcal meningitis vaccine for Neisseria meningitides serotypes A, C, Y, and W-135 http://www.jn-vaccines.org/US20080020428_1_JN_MENINGITIS_PATENT.pdf
  6. ↑ Jeeri R. Reddy and Thiombiano S. Rigobert. Infections à méningocoques Maladies infectious et Africa. West Africa. Med. Bull. 2007
  7. ↑ Jeeri R Reddy and Thiombiano S. Rigobert. Infections à méningocoques Maladies infectious et Africa. West Africa. Med. Bull. 2008
  8. ↑ Jeeri R. Reddy, Safety and Immunogenicity of Meningococcal Meningitis Quadrivalent (A,C,Y & W-135) Polysaccharide Vaccine "PHASE III MULTICENTER CLINICAL TRIAL IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA" 2008; West African Journal of Medicine (in press)
  9. ↑ Clinton Global Initiative: Development and Production of Low-Cost Vaccines, 2006 https://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative/commitments/development-and-production-low-cost-vaccines
  10. ↑ A world in which all people at risk are protected against vaccine-preventable diseases http://who.int/en/
  11. ↑ Reddy, J R and Ahmed, K M and Varma, B K (1988) Bacterial wilt of chickpea caused by Xanthomonas campestris (Pam.) Dowson. International Chickpea Newsletter, 19. pp. 13-15. ISSN 0257-2508 http://oar.icrisat.org/2151/
  12. ↑ US patent 7491517, Reddy, Jeeri R., "Method of producing meningococcal meningitis vaccine for Neisseria meningitides serotypes A,C,Y, and W-135", issued 17 February 2009
  13. ↑ US application 20090252769, Reddy, Jeeri R., "PREVENTIVE AND THERAPEUTIC VACCINE FOR STORKE AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS", published 8 August 2009
  14. ↑ US application 20090175891, Reddy, Jeeri R., "Preventive And Therapeutic Vaccine For Huntington's Disease", published 9 July 2009
  15. ↑ US application 20090162387, Reddy, Jeeri R., "PREVENTIVE AND THERAPEUTIC VACCINE FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE", published 25 June 2009
  16. ↑ REDDY Jeeri. Preventive and therapeutic vaccine for Stroke and Neurological Disorders http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2008121146
  17. ↑ Reddy JR, Kwang J, Varthakavi V, Lechtenberg KF, Minocha HC (October 1999). "Semiliki forest virus vector carrying the bovine viral diarrhea virus NS3 (p80) cDNA induced immune responses in mice and expressed BVDV protein in mammalian cells". Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 22 (4): 231–46. doi:10.1016/S0147-9571(99)00014-4. PMID 10465327.
  18. ↑ Seshu Kumar Gudlavalleti, Erika Nicole Crawford, Jeffery David Harder, and Jeeri Raghava Reddy |title=Quantification of each Serogroup Polysaccharide of Neisseria meningitidis in A/C/Y/W-135-DT Conjugate Vaccine by HighPerformance Anion-Exchange Chromatography-Pulsed Amperometric Detection Analysis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Jeeri+Raghava+Reddy
  19. ↑ http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02602900
  20. ↑ The Society of Phi Zeta Sigma Chapter at Kansas State University: http://www.vet.k-state.edu/research/
  21. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeeri_Reddy/contributions/
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