Shanmuganathan Chandrakasan, MD, is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and a member of the Cancer Immunology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. He also leads one of the largest comprehensive immunohematology and immune dysregulation programs in the United States at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
Education
Dr. Chandrakasan earned his MD from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, following his MBBS from Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medicine and Research in Puducherry. Dr. Chandrakasan completed an advanced research fellowship in transplant biology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He also completed a fellowship in pediatric hematology-oncology and bone marrow transplantation at the same institution. Prior to that, he finished his pediatrics residency at Children's Hospital of Michigan.
Titles & Roles
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine
Director, Immunohematology/ Immune dysregulation and Immune Defects Transplant Programs
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Professional Memberships
Dr. Chandrakasan is part of the following professional memberships:
Member, Planning Committee, ASPHO
Member, HLH steering committee, Histiocyte Society
Dr. Chandrakasan's lab has been conducting translational research with multi-institutional collaboration in the area of multilineage immune cytopenia and helped establish the concept of broad immune dysregulation in these patients. They also established a scoring system to identify immune cytopenia patients with a high risk of underlying immune morbidity. Immune dysregulation in these patients is characterized by circulating T follicular cell expansion and Th1 skew (Kumar et.al Blood Jan 2022).
