Mala Shanmugam, PhD
@shanmugamlab
Associate Professor Hem/Onc @EmoryMedicine & @WinshipAtEmory. Cancer biologist/metabolism/multiple myeloma/ everything mitochondria
A legend has passed. Will miss my mentor Dr VR Muthukkaruppan who was so instrumental in developing my interest in research. He is authored the Science paper describing the angiogenesis assay PMID 472760. Seen here with Dr Max Cooper

New work 🎉: conformal classifiers return sets of classes for each example, with a probabilistic guarantee the true class is included. But these sets can be too large to be useful. In our #CVPR2025 paper, we propose a method to make them more compact without sacrificing…
Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard. hrvd.me/IntStudents25t
Proud of my three daughters — all doctors, but very different fields! 🎉🥰🎉Congratulations especially to Nithya, a new graduate of the Emory School of Medicine.

Congratulations to @AKesarwala Emory SOM and all awardees on receiving the Keystone Tumor Metabolism Awards and for their exciting advancement of the field!

Our Blood paper on heme regulation of BCL-2 dependence and Venetoclax sensitivity lead by the amazing @Remya_Nair_PhD is out! Thanks to Dr Amit Reddi and our collaborators for improving our understanding of a metabolism-apoptosis-resistance axis nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…
Join us on March 13-14, 2025, for postdoctoral recruitment event at Winship! Network with mentors and #postdocs, and explore Emory's research and career resources. 🔗 Details & Application: apps.winshipcancer.emory.edu/admin/Event/64… #PostdocOpportunities #CancerResearch #WinshipResearch
Excited to share our new study lead by Dr Richa Sharma with @LealTiciana and @AdamMarcusPhD detailing how heterogeneity in YAP/TAZ expression drives collective NSCLC invasion that is targeted by sumoylation inhibitor TAK-981 cell.com/iscience/pdf/S…
To my science framily, As we reflect on this election season, I want to take a moment to acknowledge that things may not have gone as we had hoped or expected. I wish I was shocked that America did not elect its first woman and woman of color to the presidency but I am angry and…
Celebrating Diwali 2024 with an amazing group of mentees, colleagues and students! Feeling blessed to be with such a wonderful community 😊🪔🎉



Women in myeloma. Strong, supportive, compassionate. #mmsm #ims2024
Congratulations to the newest doctor in our family, Divya! From a wedding through graduation so much to celebrate 🎉 and of course Thank you to MIT for all you’ve given Divya! So proud of you! ❤️#MIT2024 #CAML



Incredibly proud our latest Dr. Divya Shanmugam @dmshanmugam on her successful PhD with her mentor Dr. John Guttag!


Amazing time participating and presenting at iwMyeloma 2024 with @NBahlis @BioBenBarwick and others!

Congratulations and proud of Remya Nair PhD on her amazing presentation at #kstumormetab24

Ten years and Tenure! So thankful to my past and present mentors, trainees and awesome lab! Here’s to ten more years of impactful science and mentorship!

