Vikram Pattanayak, MD, PhD
Anatomic Pathology
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Age Groups Seen
- Adults
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Languages
- English
Gender
MaleAbout Vikram Pattanayak
Vikram Pattanayak is an Assistant in Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor in Pathology at Harvard Medical School. He has completed a residency in clinical pathology and fellowship in molecular genetic pathology and serves as the director of the Massachusetts General Hospital histocompatibility (HLA) laboratory.
In addition to his clinical interests, Dr. Pattanayak leads a subgroup of Keith Joung’s laboratory focused on the development of genome editing tools. During his M.D., Ph.D. thesis work with David Liu in the Harvard Chemistry department, he developed assays to define the specificities of designer endonucleases, including homing endonucleases, zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), and Cas9. As a member of the Joung lab, he engineered a variant of Cas9 (SpCas9-HF1) with minimal off-target effects.
Expertise
Education
- Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital, Pathology, 2017
- Fellowship: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Molecular Genetic Pathology, 2016
- Medical Education: Harvard Medical School, 2013
Board Certifications
- Clinical Pathology: American Board of Pathology, 2017
Insurance
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Multiplan
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH