Malaichamy Sivasankar holds a BTech in Biotechnology and a MTech in Molecular Biology and Human Genetics from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and Bharathiar University, India.
He did his postgraduate internship at Vision Research Foundation, India under Dr. Madhavan Jagadeesan and also worked as a research fellow in an ICMR-INSERM funded project on Congenital Stationary Night Blindness (CSNB) under the guidance of Dr. Soumittra Nagasamy in the same institution from 2011 to 2014. He was associated with MedGenome Labs Ltd., India between 2015 and 2020 which has given him prodigious knowledge in NGS based genetic testing, clinical reporting and their implication in treatment and management of various genetic disorders predominantly neuromuscular disorders. He was also involved in research projects on genetics of retinoblastoma and inherited retinal disorders.
Currently he has enrolled as a PhD student in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa under the supervision of Dr. Lochmüller, where he is elated to research on exploring novel genes and mechanisms implicated in undiagnosed neuromuscular disorders.
