Professor of Medicine
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Dr. Natarajan (Raj) Muthusamy is a tenured professor of medicine, associate division director (Academic Affairs), Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine at College of Medicine, The Ohio State University (OSU). He is also a member of the Leukemia and Hematological Malignancies Program and co-director of the Experimental Hematology Laboratory at the NCI-Designated OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center. Following his PhD degree in Immunology from the University of Kentucky in 1992, Dr. Muthusamy completed his Post-Doctoral training at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Chicago in Molecular Immunology, focusing on transcriptional regulation of lymphocyte development by Ets and CREB/ATF family of transcription factors using engineered mouse models. In 1997, he joined the faculty at OSU. Dr. Muthusamy’s research focuses translational medicine with an emphasis on disease biology and biological and targeted therapies in hematological malignancies. He has published ~150 peer-reviewed manuscripts in high-impact journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, Cancer Cell, Cell Reports, Immunity, Blood etc. In addition to serving as principal investigator in several current and past NIH grants he serves on the NIH, ACS, DOD, and ASH grant review committees. Dr. Muthusamy has been extensively involved in training more than 50 trainees, including junior faculty members, PhD and MD/PhD students, medical students, postdoctoral fellows, clinical fellows, undergraduate and high school students, and high school teachers. Several of his past trainees have been recipients of national and local fellowships and trainee and achievement awards, now holding academic positions in various capacities, including instructors, assistant professors, associate professors, and full professors. He has also hosted exchange students and faculty members from India and other countries in his laboratory. He was awarded 2025 Achievement award from the Society of South Asian Scientists of Cancer Research, for his accomplishments and contributions in Cancer Research at the AACR meeting in 2025.
Saturday, September 13, 2025
15:40 - 15:55 CEST
