Thalachallour Mohanakumar

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Thalachallour Mohanakumar is an Indian academic and professor whose work focuses on tumor immunology, especially for lung and breast cancer, and bone marrow transplantation. He is the Jacqueline G. and William E. Maritz professor of surgery, pathology, and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Education:
- Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Madras Veterinary College
- Master’s degree in Microbiology from AIIMS, New Delhi
- PhD in Immunology from Duke University

Career and research:
- At Washington University, Mohanakumar has contributed to understanding how the immune system causes transplant rejection.
- He has overseen islet location and serves as Director of Histocompatibility, key roles in bone marrow and organ transplantation.
- He has received awards from the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, the American Society of Transplantation, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
- He has published more than 350 scientific papers and has served on NIH study sections.

Recent findings:
- His research group has studied lung transplant rejection for more than 20 years.
- They recently identified a possible diagnostic marker for chronic lung allograft dysfunction by monitoring proteins such as ZBTB7A.