Manikkam Suthanthiran
MD
Manikkam (Suthan) Suthanthiran, MD, is the Founding Chairman of the Department of Transplantation Medicine, and Chief of Nephrology and Hypertension at The New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell. Dr. Suthanthiran serves as the Director, Center for Islet Transplantation at Cornell and as the Co-Chair, Executive Transplantation Council of the Multi-Organ Program of Columbia and Cornell, New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Suthanthiran's research is in the area of Transplantation Immunobiology. His laboratory investigates T-Cell signaling, mechanism of action of immunosuppressants and the immunology and molecular biology of allograft rejection. Suthanthiran’s laboratory developed competitive quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay, and applied it for the characterization of acute rejection and chronic rejection. His laboratory has developed urinary cell mRNA profiling for the noninvasive diagnosis and prognosis of acute rejection of renal allografts. He’s editor of Transplantation since 1997 and is at the editorial Board of Kidney International (2005-); Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology (2005- ) and Journal American Society of Nephrology (2007-)