Thangamani Muthukumar, M.D., MS

Thangamani Muthukumar, M.D., M.S., is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and an Associate Attending Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He is the associate director (research) for the nephrology fellowship program at Cornell. He is board certified in internal medicine and nephrology. 

Dr. Muthukumar trained as a nephrologist in India and again in the U.S.A. He graduated from the Madras Medical College, Chennai (Madras), India and after a residency in medicine at Stanley Medical College, Chennai (Madras), India, completed his nephrology fellowship at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. He joined as a research fellow at Cornell in 2001, in the transplantation immunology research laboratory of Dr. Manikkam Suthanthiran, the Stanton Griffis Distinguished Professor of Medicine. 

Dr. Muthukumar subsequently did his residency in medicine and fellowship in nephrology at the NewYork Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell, and upon completion, joined the faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine in 2009. He also serves as a nephrology consultant at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and at the Hospital for Special Surgery.

Dr. Muthukumar’s research is primarily focused on the molecular aspects of kidney transplant rejection. He has published extensively in this area and his research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the American Society of Transplantation. Dr. Muthukumar has also received advanced training in research methodology and graduated from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences with a master's degree in Clinical and Translational Investigation.

Dr. Muthukumar is actively involved in teaching and is the Director of the Renal Unit of Health, Illness and Disease Course both at the Weill Cornell Medical College and at the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. He is also the Associate Program Director (Research) of the Nephrology Fellowship Program.

 Dr. Muthukumar is a member of the prestigious American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), the nation’s oldest and most respected medical honor societies. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Transplantation (FAST) and the American Society of Nephrology (FASN).

Dr. Muthukumar serves as a member of the Scientific Review Committee of the American Society of Transplantation – Transplantation and Immunology Research Network. He is also a member of the Clinical Study Evaluation Committee at Weill Cornell Medicine.