research opportunities for residents - Weill Cornell Department of ...
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Major areas <strong>of</strong> <strong>research</strong> include: (1) investigation <strong>of</strong> mechanisms <strong>of</strong> transplant rejection and tolerance; (2)<br />
development and validation <strong>of</strong> noninvasive biomarkers <strong>for</strong> rejection and tolerance; (3) islet cell<br />
transplantation; and (4) T-regulatory cell therapy.<br />
Thangamani Muthukumar, MD<br />
Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Medicine<br />
Division <strong>of</strong> Nephrology & Hypertension<br />
<strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Medicine <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Transplantation Medicine<br />
Email: mut9002@med.cornell.edu<br />
Tel: (212) 746-4430<br />
I would be pleased to participate in mentoring <strong>residents</strong>. My <strong>research</strong> in the Suthanthiran laboratory<br />
focuses on acute (AR) and chronic rejection (CR) <strong>of</strong> kidney transplants. Currently, we are studying the<br />
expression pattern <strong>of</strong> mRNA and microRNA in human kidney transplant recipients using the Next-<br />
Generation sequencing technology.<br />
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