Sivan Subburaju, PhD

Sivan Subburaju, PhD

McLean Hospital Title
  • Director, Laboratory for Neuromedicine Research and Discovery

Harvard Medical School Title
  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Biography

Sivan Subburaju, PhD, is an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Laboratory for Neuromedicine Research and Discovery at McLean Hospital. Dr. Subburaju’s main research focuses on translational psychiatry and neuroplastic changes associated with psychiatric disorders and stress. He has developed a novel in vitro model to study GABA cell dysfunction in schizophrenia, and established sophisticated methodology to delineate cellular and molecular changes associated with mental illness, specifically schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, in vivo.

The ultimate aim of Dr. Subburaju’s studies is to find novel therapeutic targets to treat cognitive dysfunction associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Education & Training

Degrees:
  • 1981 BSc, University of Madras, India
  • 1984 MSc, University of Madras, India
  • 1986 MPhil, University of Madras, India
  • 1995 PhD, University of Madras, India
  • 1999 PhD, The National University, Singapore
Fellowship:
  • 1987-1989 Research Fellow, University of Madras, India
  • 1989-1990 Senior Research Fellow, CSIR, Government of India
  • 1990-1994 Research Scholarship, The National University, Singapore
  • 2004-2007 Visiting Research Fellow, NICHD, National Institutes of Health

Contact

Phone: 617.855.2071
Office Address: Belmont campus - Mailman Research Center, Room 302A