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Tara Sigdel, Ph.D.

Tara Sigdel, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Surgery
  • Division of Transplant Surgery

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513 Parnassus Ave, Med Sci
San Francisco CA 94143
tara.sigdel@ucsf.edu
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B.Sc. (Biology and Chemistry) Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

M.Sc. (Chemistry) Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, Advisor: Prof. Vishwanath Pd. Agrawal, PhD

Ph.D. (Biochemistry), Miami University, Oxford, OH, Advisor: Prof. Michael Crowder, PhD

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  • Postdoctoral Training, Dept of Pediatrics-nephrology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
  • Advisor: Prof. Minnie Sarwal MD. PhD.
  • Bioinformatics
  • Biomarker DIscovery
  • High Throughput Data
  • Immunology
  • Kidney Transplantation
  • Liver Cancer
  • Organ Transplantation
  • Proteomics

Tara Sigdel, Ph.D. obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Miami University (OH) followed by postdoctoral training in biomarker discovery, immunology, and organ transplantation at Stanford University under Professor Minnie Sarwal. Dr Sigdel joined the UCSF Department of Surgery in 2014 where he uses proteomics, immune response profiling, and gene expression analysis to discover sensitive and effective biomarkers that help in developing clinical tools for early diagnosis and improved patient monitoring. In collaboration with researchers at UCSF and other institutes, Dr. Sigdel is actively involved in identification of non-invasive biomarkers genes, peptides, proteins, and antibodies that monitor disease status after organ transplantation.

  Award  
  Confired By    
  Date    
  • Pediatric Research Fund – CHRP Award
  • Stanford University, Stanford, CA
  • 2009 - 2010
  • Pediatric Research Fund – CHRP Award
  • Stanford University, Stanford, CA
  • 2008 - 2009
  • Deans Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Stanford University, Stanford, CA
  • 2007 - 2008
  • Doctoral-Undergraduate Opportunities in Scholarship (DUOS) award for two consecutive years (2003 and
  • Miami University, Oxford, OH
  • 2003 - 2005
  • William Hale Charch Graduate Fellowship
  • Miami University, Oxford, OH
  • 2002 - 2003
  • Dr. Sigdel's research is driven by two major factors. First, there is an unprecedented pressure to deliver new and improved diagnostic and treatment options to patients. Second, due to improved understanding of biological intricacies with ever improving molecular assays have placed us in a much better position to look for disease specific biomarkers that once validated can be used in the clinics in order to provide timely and accurate assessment of health status of patients.

    MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 95
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    1. Boada P, Fatou B, Belperron AA, Sigdel TK, Smolen KK, Wurie Z, Levy O, Ronca SE, Murray KO, Liberto JM, Rashmi P, Kerwin M, Montgomery RR, Bockenstedt LK, Steen H, Sarwal MM. Longitudinal serum proteomics analyses identify unique and overlapping host response pathways in Lyme disease and West Nile virus infection. Front Immunol. 2022; 13:1012824. View in PubMed
    2. Sigdel TK, Fields PA, Liberto J, Damm I, Kerwin M, Hood J, Towfighi P, Sirota M, Robins HS, Sarwal MM. Perturbations of the T-cell immune repertoire in kidney transplant rejection. Front Immunol. 2022; 13:1012042. View in PubMed
    3. Hansen J, Sealfon R, Menon R, Eadon MT, Lake BB, Steck B, Anjani K, Parikh S, Sigdel TK, Zhang G, Velickovic D, Barwinska D, Alexandrov T, Dobi D, Rashmi P, Otto EA, Rivera M, Rose MP, Anderton CR, Shapiro JP, Pamreddy A, Winfree S, Xiong Y, He Y, de Boer IH, Hodgin JB, Barisoni L, Naik AS, Sharma K, Sarwal MM, Zhang K, Himmelfarb J, Rovin B, El-Achkar TM, Laszik Z, He JC, Dagher PC, Valerius MT, Jain S, Satlin LM, Troyanskaya OG, Kretzler M, Iyengar R, Azeloglu EU, Kidney Precision Medicine Project. A reference tissue atlas for the human kidney. Sci Adv. 2022 06 10; 8(23):eabn4965. View in PubMed
    4. Ishiyama K, Arakawa-Hoyt J, Aguilar OA, Damm I, Towfighi P, Sigdel T, Tamaki S, Babdor J, Spitzer MH, Reed EF, Sarwal MM, Lanier LL, CMV Systems Immunobiology Group. Mass cytometry reveals single-cell kinetics of cytotoxic lymphocyte evolution in CMV-infected renal transplant patients. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 02 22; 119(8). View in PubMed
    5. Sur S, Nguyen M, Boada P, Sigdel TK, Sollinger H, Sarwal MM. FcER1: A Novel Molecule Implicated in the Progression of Human Diabetic Kidney Disease. Front Immunol. 2021; 12:769972. View in PubMed
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