Rajni Kaul

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Dr. Rajni Kaul is an Indian zoologist. As of 2013, she works at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi.
EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
Dr. Kaul was born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh to Shri H.L Tickoo, a retired official from the postal services department and Shrimati Shiela Tickoo, a homemaker. She spent her early days in Srinagar, Kashmir, her ancestral hometown.
Dr. Kaul completed her Bachelors of Science(BSc) and Masters of Science (MSc.) from Kashmir University, Srinagar. She completed her degree in Masters of Philosophy (MPhil.) She was motivated and inspired by her husband, Dr. Sidharth Kaul, to pursue her PhD in the same field from Himachal University.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Dr Rajni Kaul has been deeply involved with the coordination of various research activities in the areas of Pharmacology, Traditional medicine, Physiology, Organ transplantation and Toxicology.
In the field of Biomedical ethics, she was involved with a biennium proposal, jointly prepared by ICMR and the World Health Organization (WHO) under which 14 workshops were organised in different parts of India in order to increase awareness.
She also worked for a proposal that catered to "Community control on haemoglobinopathies" under which three centres(Patna,Chattisgarh and Jabalpur) were identified to conduct a screening of antenatal mothers. Training workshops for various techniques were conducted for Medical Officers to ensure proper diagnosis of a disease .
WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIUMS :
Coordination of a Indo - German workshop on host pathogen relation was held on 18 to 20 September 2001 organised at Chandigarh.
An intercountry workshop on biomedical ethics, 9-13th Sept.2003,New Delhi.
An Indo-German workshop on bioethics 4-6 March 2002, Lonavala, Maharashtra.
Keynote speaker at a conference on Thalassemia prevention control programme organized by Hindu Rao Hospital in collaboration with thalassemia society, Delhi Government.
A paper on “Thalassemia Prevention Control Programme” was presented during the conference.
A paper on “Ethical issues related to human subjects” presented during Silver Jublee conference on XXV National Congress of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists held at AIIMS from 21-25 November 2001
A training course on “Ethical issues in international health research", 11 -15 June, 2001 at Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA .
AWARDS
1990 Research Associateship from CSIR
1986 Research Associateship from CSIR
1980 Kashmir University Research Fellowship, Srinagar
Awarded the best technical paper at the Envirotech Scientific Article contest 1994 organised jointly by Society for participatory research in Asia in collaboration with envirotech instruments Pvt. Ltd.
PERSONAL LIFE
In 1982, Dr. Rajni Kaul married Dr. Sidharth Kaul, a limnologist currently working as an Advisor at the Ministry of environment and forest, Central govt. India. They have two children, a daughter and a son.
Dr. Kaul currently resides with her family in New Delhi.
PUBLICATIONS
Mohanty, D., Mukherjee, M.B., Colah, R.B., Wadia, M., Ghosh, K., Chottray, G.P., Jain, D., Italia, Y., Ashokan, K., Kaul, R., Shukla, D.K. and Muthuswamy, V. Iron deficiency anaemia in sickle cell disorders in India. Indian J Med Res 127 (2008) 366.
Gupta, P. Banerjee, D.K., Bhargava, S.K., Kaul, R. and Shanke, R. Prevalence of restrictive ventilatory lung functions in rubber factory workers exposed to Benzo(a) pyrene Indoor Environment U.K. (1992)
Gupta, P., Banerjee, D.K., Bhargava, S.K. Kaul, R. and Shanke, R. High airways resistance in rubber factory workers (Indoor Environment, U.K.)
Malhotra RK, Kaul R, Malhotra N. Glycogen accumulation in normal and irradiated minced muscle autografts on frog gastrocnemius. Exp Pathol. 1989;36:177- 80
Malhotra, R.K. and Kaul, R. Histochemistry of minced muscle autografts on frog gastrocnemius presented at the 11th International Congress of International Society of Developmental Biologyists held at Utrect (The Netherlands), August 20-25 (1989).
Malhotra, R.K. and Kaul, R. Metabolic changes in minced muscle autografts on frog gastrocnemius at the XVIIIth European Conference on muscle and motility held at Luntern (The Netherlands) Sept 12-16 (1989).
Malhotra, R.K., Kaul, R. and Malhotra, N. Effect of irradiation on glycogen content, phosphory lase and glucose-6-phosphatase activities in regenerating frog gastrocnemius muscle J Pollut Res 6 (1987) 15.
Malhotra RK, Kaul R. Stimulation of glucose-6-phosphatase activity in minced muscle autografts on frog gastrocnemius. Indian J Exp Biol. 1987;25:281- 2
Malhotra, R.K. and Kaul, R. Aspartate and alanine utilisation in minced muscle autografts on normal and denervated frog gastronemius. J Anim Morphol Physiol 4 (1987) 139.
Malhotra RK, Kaul R, Malhotra N. Transaminase activity in normal and irradiated minced muscle autografts on frog gastrocnemius. Indian J Exp Biol. 1986;24:414- 5
Kaul, R. Histological, histochemical and biochemical studies on frog gastrocnemius during its repair and regeneration Ph.D., Thesis, Himachal Univ, Shimla. (1985)
Ehanna, A. and Kaul, R. Histochemical localisation of neutral lipid, in digestive system of three fresh water teleosts. Kashmir Univ Res J 3 (1982) 15.

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