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Qizhi Tang, Ph.D.

Qizhi Tang, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Surgery
  • Division of Transplant Surgery
  • Director, Transplantation Research Laboratory

Contact Information

(415) 476-1739
(415) 476-0789
(415) 502-8326 Fax
[email protected]
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Peking Union Medical College, China, toward MD, 1984-89

University of South Alabama, toward PhD, Microbiology, 1989-91

University of Illinois at Chicago, Ph.D., Immunology, 1991-96

  • University of Illinois, Chicago, Postdoctoral Fellow, Immunology, 1996-98
  • University Of Chicago, Postdoctoral Fellow, Immunology, 1998-00
  • University of California, San Francisco, California, Postdoctoral Fellow, Immunology, 2000-02
  • Autoimmunity
  • Immune Tolerance
  • Immunotherapy
  • Islets of Langerhans Transplantation
  • Suppressor-Effector
  • T-Lymphocyte Subsets
  • T-Lymphocytes
  • Transplantation Immunology
  • Transplantation Tolerance

Dr. Tang attended Peking Union Medical College in China. After completing 5 years of the 8-year MD training, she left the program to pursue graduate education in the US and received her PhD in immunology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed postdoctoral fellowships investigating mechanisms of immune tolerance at the University of Chicago and the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Tang joined the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco in 2002 as an Assistant Professor of Pathology in the Diabetes Center where she researched mechanisms of immune tolerance. She joined the Transplantation Division in the Department of Surgery in 2007 to lead basic research and translational research in transplant immunology. She has been the director of the UCSF Transplantation Research Laboratory since 2007 where she leads basic and translational research in transplantation.

A major research focus in the Tang Lab is on regulatory T cell therapy for autoimmune diseases and transplantation. Since 2011, she has also been co-directing the regulatory T cell therapy program at UCSF, which has supported 10 early-phase clinical trials in type 1 diabetes, pemphigus, islet transplantation, kidney transplantation and liver transplantation. Another area of research in the Tang Lab is on optimizing islet transplantation to enable highly efficient immunosuppression-free replacement of pancreatic beta cells for the treatment of type 1 diabetes.

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ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7313-3574 Additional info
  • Pancreatic Islets and Parathyroid Gland Co-transplantation for Treatment of Diabetes in the Intra-Muscular Site: PARADIGM
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    Jul 2019
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    Jun 2023
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  • Islet transplant operational tolerance through minimization of ischemic injury and local immune regulation
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    Sep 2019
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    Aug 2021
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  • Novel Therapies to Modulate the Inflammatory Alloresponse in Renal Grafts
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    Jul 2014
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    Jun 2021
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  • Engineering Treg cells to treat type 1 diabetes
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    Nov 2017
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    Oct 2020
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  • Multiplex in situ gene expression and phenotypical profiling of inflamed tissues
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    Jun 2015
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    May 2020
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  • Diabetes Research Center
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    Sep 2002
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    Mar 2020
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  • Promoting extrahepatic engraftment of human islets by parathyroid gland co-transplantation
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    Jun 2018
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    May 2019
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  • Donor-Alloantigen-Reactive Regulatory T Cell Therapy in Liver Transplantation
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    Jun 2014
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    May 2019
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  • Regulatory 'T' Cell Control of Autoimmune Diabetes.
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    Mar 2010
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    Feb 2016
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  • "Regulatory 'T'Cell Control of Autoimmune Diabetes".
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    Mar 2010
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    Feb 2015
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  • "Donor-Specific Regulatory T Cell Therapy in Liver Transplantation"
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    Apr 2012
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    Mar 2014
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  • Donor-Specific Regulatory T Cell Therapy in Liver Transplantation
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    Apr 2012
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    Mar 2014
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  • BD FACS ARIA II CELL SORTER
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    Feb 2010
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    Jan 2011
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  • Visualizing regulatory T cell control of autoimmunity
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    Jul 2005
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    Jun 2008
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  • T CELL ACTIVATION AND ANERGY INDUCTION BY ANTI-CD3
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    Feb 2000
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MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 122
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  1. Hadley P, Chen Y, Cline L, Han Z, Tang Q, Huang X, Desai T. Precise surface functionalization of PLGA particles for human T cell modulation. Nat Protoc. 2023 Oct 18. View in PubMed
  2. Xu H, Yang H, Wang Z, Tang Q, Cao X, Chen C, Dong Y, Xu Z, Lv D, Rong Y, Chen M, Tang B, Deng W, Zhu J, Hu Z. Epidermal stem cell derived exosomes alleviate excessive autophagy induced endothelial cell apoptosis by delivering miR200b-3p to diabetic wounds. J Invest Dermatol. 2023 Oct 12. View in PubMed
  3. Kim EJ, Chen C, Gologorsky R, Santandreu A, Torres A, Wright N, Goodin MS, Moyer J, Chui BW, Blaha C, Brakeman P, Vartanian S, Tang Q, David Humes H, Fissell WH, Roy S. Feasibility of an implantable bioreactor for renal cell therapy using silicon nanopore membranes. Nat Commun. 2023 08 29; 14(1):4890. View in PubMed
  4. Obarorakpor N, Patel D, Boyarov R, Amarsaikhan N, Cepeda JR, Eastes D, Robertson S, Johnson T, Yang K, Tang Q, Zhang L. Regulatory T cells targeting a pathogenic MHC class II: Insulin peptide epitope postpone spontaneous autoimmune diabetes. Front Immunol. 2023; 14:1207108. View in PubMed
  5. Tang Q. Regulatory T cells aid stem-cell therapy for Parkinson's disease. Nature. 2023 Jul; 619(7970):470-472. View in PubMed
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