Dr. Shivakumar Subramaniyam received his undergraduate education and Ph.D from India. He completed Masters of Science (M.Sc.) in Applied Genetics in 1996 from Bangalore University, India, and Ph.D degree in Cancer Cytogenetics from the famous Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India in 2003. During his Ph.D program he received training in Cancer Cytogenetics from the Departments of Oncology and Haematology, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany and the Department of Haematology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University college London, London, U.K in the year 1999.
After obtaining his Ph.D degree, He moved to the United States and joined the prestigious Columbia University, New York, as post doctoral scientist in 2004. His research focussed mainly on chromosomal regions 5p and 20q in cervical cancer. Simultaneously he also worked on various cytogenetics, and molecular cytogenetic aspects of leukemia, lymphoma and solid tumors. He published couple of research papers in peer reviewed journals. During his career at Columbia University, He also completed the American Board for Medical Genetics (ABMG), Fellowship program (2006-2008) in Clinical Cytogenetics under the supervision of Dr. Dorothy Warburton, Dr. Wendy Chung and Dr. VVVS Murty, and is currently Board certfied in clinical cytogenetics. He is currently an active member of the American association for cancer research.
Dr. Subramaniyam joined the faculty at Weill-Cornell Medical College in September 2008 and currently is working as an Assistant Director of the Cytogenetics laboratory.
