Physician Investigator (Cl) Pulmonary, Mass General Research Institute

Instructor in Medicine Harvard Medical School

Assistant Physician Pulmonary, Massachusetts General Hospital

MD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 2013

PhD 2013

B.A., Neuroscience Johns Hopkins University 2005

biochemistry; bronchiectasis; ciliopathies; critical care; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; genetic diseases; genetics; lysosomal disease; molecular biology; organelles; pulmonary disease; pulmonary fibrosis Raghu R. Chivukula, MD, PhD is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a Principal Investigator in the Center for Genomic Medicine, and an attending physician in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to coming to Mass General for residency and fellowship training, he was an undergraduate and MD/PhD student at Johns Hopkins University. His doctoral dissertation focused on the molecular physiology of microRNAs and his postdoctoral work at the Whitehead Instititute for Biomedical Research focused on cell biology and biochemistry of organelles.

As a physician-scientist, Dr. Chivukula's laboratory interests center on rare genetic disorders which affect specialized subcellular organelles to cause human disease.  His recent and ongoing work has focused on Mendelian disorders of the lung which interfere with airway mucociliary clearance and cause pulmonary fibrosis. His work has been recognized by a Michael A. Shanoff Research Award, selection to Forbes “30 Under 30” in Science and Healthcare, as a Parker B. Francis Foundation Fellow, and as a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists.