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Minnie M. Sarwal M.D., Ph.D., FRCP, DCH

Minnie M. Sarwal M.D., Ph.D., FRCP, DCH

  • Professor of Surgery, Medicine, Pediatrics Professor (Adj), Stanford University, UC Berkeley Director, Precision Transplant Medicine, UCSF Co-Director, T32 Training Grant, Transplant Surgery, UCSF

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513 Parnassus Ave, Med Sci Room S1268
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La Martiniere, Calcutta, India, English Language and Literature, I.S.C.,1981

Calcutta Medical College, Calcutta, India, M.D.,1985

Diploma in Child Health (D.C.H.), London, UK, with distinction 1989

Cambridge University, U.K, Ph.D.,1995

  • Residency (Medicine and Surgery), Calcutta Medical College, India, 06/1986-06/1987
  • Senior House Officer (Pediatrics and Surgery), Calcutta Medical College, India. Advisors: Sir Keith Peters, Sir Cyril Chantler and Sydney Brenner, 06/1987-02/1988
  • Senior House Officer, General Pediatrics & Neonates, Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, UK, 02/-07/1989
  • Senior House Officer, General Pediatrics & Neonates, Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Granthan (GKGH), UK, 03/1988-02/1989
  • Senior House Officer, Neonatology, Leicester Royal Infirmary (LRI), Leicester, UK, 08/-11/1989
  • Senior House Officer, General Pediatrics & Neonates, Leicester General Hosp. (LGH), Leicester, UK, 12/89- 03/90
  • Registrar, Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgical Unit, Groby Road Hospital, (GRH), Leicester, UK, 04/90-07/90
  • Senior House Officer, Pediatric Nephrology Unit, Guy's Hospital, London, UK, 08/90-10/90
  • Lecturer/Registrar, Pediatric Unit, Guy's Hospital, London, UK, 10/90-09/91
  • Lecturer/Senior Registrar,  Pediatric Nephrology, Dept. of Pediatrics, Guy's Hospital, London, U.K., 10/92-07/95
  • Fellowship in Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, 10/91-09/92
  • Ph.D., Molecular Genetics Unit, Christs College, Cambridge University, 10/92-12/95 
  • Acute Kidney Failure
  • Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Cystinosis
  • End-Stage Renal Disease
  • Kidney Transplant Clinical Trials
  • Methylmalonic acidemia
  • Oxalosis
  • Pediatric Bone and Mineral Disorders
  • Pediatric Kidney Transplantation
  • Pediatric Transplant Nephrology
  • Transplant Immunology
  • Genomics
  • Antibiomics
  • GVHD
  • Hepatitis B, C and HIV
  • Metabolomics
  • Organ diseases
  • Proteomics
  • Transplant immunobiology of rejection and tolerance
  • Hindi, Punjab

Minnie M. Sarwal M.D., Ph.D., FRCP, DCH is Professor in Residence, Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, Co-Director of the Pancreas Kidney Transplant Program, Director of the Precision Transplant Medicine, Sarwal Lab at UCSF. Sarwal is a nationally and internationally recognized leader in the fields of renal and transplant medicine, genomics, proteomics and immunology. The Sarwal Lab supported precision and predictive diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for organ transplant recipients by discovering new treatments and investigative approaches using in vitro, CRISPR-Cas9, and animal KO models relevant to kidney disease, FSGS and transplant rejection. Sarwal was Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics and Immunology at Stanford University, Medical Director of the Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital and Director of the Sarwal Lab for 16 years prior to joining UCSF in 2014.

Sarwal received her M.D. from Calcutta Medical College in India, completed her residency in the UK, and a fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology at Guy's Hospital, London, UK. She earned her Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from Cambridge University (Christ's College) where she worked with Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner on the synthetic mapping of human and puffer fish G proteins. Sarwal also holds a Diploma in Child Health from London, UK, and degrees from the Royal College of Physicians, UK (MRCP) and is an elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, UK in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field of medicine. Sarwal is a member of numerous national and international societies including the ASN, IPTA, AST, TTS, and IPNA. She is Chief Editor, Frontiers in Nephrology (a nature journal), AE for Clinical Transplantation and has published in and served as AE/reviewer for many other scientific journals inclusive of the Nature Medicine, NEJM, AJT, Nature Communications, PNAS, Journal of Immunology and Journal of Experimental Medicine.

Sarwal has also been the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, including the Order of Excellence in Scientific Research (Cambridge, UK, 2002), the Dean's Teaching Award (2005), the Junior Faculty Award from the CCIS (2003-6), recognized Key Opinion Leader in Organ Transplantation by the Transplantation Society (2007-2009), elected Senator at Large for the Stanford Faculty Senate (2005-10), Faculty Senate UCSF (2015-17), the TTS-Roche Award for Outstanding Achievement Transplantation Science (Clinical; 2010), and the Cunio Richardson NKF Award for Scientific Excellence (2012). She also serves on the FDA Science Board for her third term, and is current Chair of the NIH-SBIR review study section and is Chair of the Department of Defense, Tissue Transplantation section. She is also a successful entrepreneur scientist and a founding member of the Rosenman Institute at UCSF.

  Award  
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  • Councillor
  • The Transplantation Society
  • 2014
  • Cunio Richardson Award for Clinical and Research Excellence
  • The National Kidney Foundation
  • 2012
  • TTS-Roche Award for Outstanding Achievement in Transplantation Science (Clinical)
  • The Transplantation Society
  • 2010
  • KOL in Organ Transplantation
  • The Transplantation Society
  • 2007 - 2010
  • Senator At Large, Stanford University Faculty Senate
  • Stanford University, USA
  • 2005 - 2010
  • Deans Award for Resident Education
  • Stanford University, USA
  • 2005
  • Faculty Development Award
  • CCIS, Stanford University, USA
  • 2003 - 2006
  • Order of Excellence
  • Cambridge University, UK
  • 2002
  • NKF Fellowship
  • National Kidney Foundation, UK
  • 1993 - 1995
  • MRC Fellowship
  • Medical Research Council, UK
  • 1991 - 1992
  • As principal Investigator on numerous multicenter clinical trials, both industry and institutional, Sarwal has developed extensive expertise in the design and execution of clinical studies. While at Stanford, Sarwal conducted the first successful U.S. steroid avoidance trial and the first dosing safety trial for Rituximab in pediatric renal transplantation.

    In 2009, Sarwal founded, Organ-i, a Stanford University spin-out to develop and commercialize her pioneering work. Organ-i leveraged 15 years of research and over $20M in NIH grants. The company's goal is to improve the clinical management of transplant patients globally by commericializing non-invasive tests to monitor and predict organ health for transplant recipients.

    Sarwal is credited with the introduction of (k-SORT), a Kidney Solid Organ Rejection Test, the company's lead product, as well as a pipeline of molecular assays focused on post-transplant rejection monitoring and allograft tolerance. In June 2014. Immucor, Inc., a global leader in transfusion and transplantation diagnostics, announced the acquisition of Organ-i and retained Sarwal as a scientific advisory role to advance the Organ-i pipeline.

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    ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3795-902X Additional info
    • Mapping Immune Responses to CMV in Renal Transplant Recipients
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    • CD40 autoantibody and FSGS recurrence
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    • Filling a Void of Research (FAVOR) Training for Transplant Surgeons
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    • Drug Repositioning in Diabetic Nephropathy
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    • Transplant injury biology and monitoring by urine proteomics
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    • Urinary Proteome Monitoring for Transplant Injury
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    • Gene and Cytokine Expression in Tolerance and GVHD
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    • A Proteomics Research Resource for Integrative Biology
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    • General Clinical Research Center
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    • Novel Urinary Proteomic Biomarkers for Acute Renal Transplant Rejection
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    • Defining Biomarkers in Pediatric Renal Transplantation
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    MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 255
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    1. Roufosse C, Naesens M, Haas M, Lefaucheur C, Mannon RB, Afrouzian M, Alachkar N, Aubert O, Bagnasco SM, Batal I, Bellamy COC, Broecker V, Budde K, Clahsen-Van Groningen M, Coley SM, Cornell LD, Dadhania D, Demetris AJ, Einecke G, Farris AB, Fogo AB, Friedewald J, Gibson IW, Horsfield C, Huang E, Husain SA, Jackson AM, Kers J, Kikic Ž, Klein A, Kozakowski N, Liapis H, Mangiola M, Montgomery RA, Nankinvell B, Neil DAH, Nickerson P, Rabant M, Randhawa P, Riella LV, Rosales I, Royal V, Sapir-Pichhadze R, Sarder P, Sarwal M, Schinstock C, Stegall M, Solez K, van der Laak J, Wiebe C, Colvin RB, Loupy A, Mengel M. The Banff 2022 Kidney Meeting Work Plan: Data-driven Refinement of the Banff Classification for Renal Allografts. Am J Transplant. 2023 Nov 04. View in PubMed
    2. Sigdel TK, Sur S, Boada P, McDermott SM, Arlehamn CSL, Murray KO, Bockenstedt LK, Kerwin M, Reed EF, Harris E, Stuart K, Peters B, Sesma A, Montgomery RR, Sarwal MM. Proteome Analysis for Inflammation Related to Acute and Convalescent Infection. Inflammation. 2023 Oct 13. View in PubMed
    3. Sarwal MM, Naesens M. Urine trumps the protocol biopsy for subclinical rejection surveillance. Kidney Int. 2023 09; 104(3):432-439. View in PubMed
    4. Lamarthée B, Callemeyn J, Van Herck Y, Antoranz A, Anglicheau D, Boada P, Becker JU, Debyser T, De Smet F, De Vusser K, Eloudzeri M, Franken A, Gwinner W, Koshy P, Kuypers D, Lambrechts D, Marquet P, Mathias V, Rabant M, Sarwal MM, Senev A, Sigdel TK, Sprangers B, Thaunat O, Tinel C, Van Brussel T, Van Craenenbroeck A, Van Loon E, Vaulet T, Bosisio F, Naesens M. Transcriptional and spatial profiling of the kidney allograft unravels a central role for FcyRIII+ innate immune cells in rejection. Nat Commun. 2023 07 19; 14(1):4359. View in PubMed
    5. Sigdel TK, Boada P, Kerwin M, Rashmi P, Gjertson D, Rossetti M, Sur S, Munar D, Cimino J, Ahn R, Pickering H, Sen S, Parmar R, Fatou B, Steen H, Schaenman J, Bunnapradist S, Reed EF, Sarwal MM, CMV Systems Immunobiology Group. Plasma proteome perturbation for CMV DNAemia in kidney transplantation. PLoS One. 2023; 18(5):e0285870. View in PubMed
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