Nikolaos Skartsis, M.D. Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Fellow,
- Sarwal Lab
- Nephrology Fellow,
- Department of Medicine
- University of California San Francisco
Contact Information
Education
University of Patras Medical School, MD PhD
Biography
I obtained my MD/ PhD from University of Patras Medical School- affiliate of John's Hopkins Medical School. Pursued Post-Doc research fellowship in transplant immunology at Harvard Medical School. Completed Internal Medicine Residency at the Albert Einstein Medical Center before undertaking fellowship training in Nephrology at the University of California San Francisco.
The main focus of my research is on transplant immunology. Our goal is to elucidate the molecular and cellular mechanisms that promote the establishment of transplant tolerance.
In the News
- Sarwal Lab - June 01, 2016Nikolaos Skartsis M.D., Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the UCSF Sarwal Lab, was the recipient of a 2016 Research Fellowship Award from the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) for his project, "The protective role of SPI6 in adoptively transferred regulatory T cells in transplantation". His group will be investigating the protective role of SPI6 in adoptively transferred T regs used to promote transplantation tolerance. Dissecting the homeostatic mechanisms of [...]
