Lab Members
Principal Investigators
Minnie M. Sarwal MD, MRCP, FRCP, PhD, DCH
Professor in Residence, Transplant Surgery, UCSF
Medical Director, Pancreas Kidney Transplant Program, UCSF
Co-Director, T32 Training Program in Surgery, UCSF
Consulting Professor, Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley
Board Member, FDA Science Board
Capstone Mentor, Masters in Translational Medicine, UCSF/UCB
Tara Sigdel, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Transplant Surgery
Research Assistants
Troy Koyama, BS
Staff Research Associate
Swastika Sur, PhD
Assistant Researcher
Students/Volunteers
Brenda Ametepe
Bioengineering PhD Student at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco
Shurl and Kay Curci Fellow
William Vo
Master of Translational Medicine Candidate
Department of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco
Alumni
Mariam Badmus
Master of Translational Medicine Candidate
Department of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco
Rebecca L. Barter BSc
Visiting Graduate Student
Oriol Bestard, MD, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor
Transplant Nephrologist
Chitranon Chan-on, MD
Visiting Scholar
Izabella Damm, BS
Staff Research Associate
Nicole Dvorak
Visiting undergraduate Student from Austria
Anna Geraedts, BS
Visiting Scholar, The Netherlands
Daniel Gonzalez
Master of Translational Medicine Candidate
Department of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco
Szu-Chuan Hsieh, MS
Associate Member
Caroline Hu
Master of Translational Medicine Candidate
Department of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco
Juliane M. Liberto, BS
Staff Research Associate II
Devon M Livingstone, BHSc, MD
Master of Translational Medicine Student through UCSF/UCB
Victoria Louie
High School Intern
Yoshiko Matsuda, MD, PhD
Visiting scholar
Neil T. Mercer, MS
Associate Specialist
Tariq Mukatash
Clinical Research Coordinator
Sharvin D. Nandoe, BS
Visiting Scholar
Michael C. Nasr, BS
Master of Translational Medicine Candidate
Department of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco
Yolanda W. Ng, MD
Associate Specialist
Mark Nguyen, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lisa Ouyang
SEP Student, 2018
Silvia Pineda, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Priyanka Rashmi PhD
Assistant Researcher
Silke Roedder, PharmD, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist
Dmitry Rychkov, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Poonam Sansanwal, PhD
Associate Member
Tyler Schmeckpeper BS
Master of Translational Medicine Candidate
Department of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco
Andrew Schroeder, MPH
- Research Scientist
Nikolaos Skartsis, MD PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Sarwal Lab
Nephrology Fellow,
Department of Medicine
University of California San Francisco
Katherine Soh, BS
MTM student
Nisreen Soufi, MD
Pediatric Transplant Hepatology Fellow
Parhom Towfighi, BA
Staff Research Associate
Clinical Research Coordinator
Tim Tran, MS
Associate Member
Praveena Velpurisiva PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Anyou Wang,PhD
Assistant Research Scientist
Joshua Y. Yang, BS
Master of Translational Medicine,
Department of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco
Arya Zarinsefat, MD
Transplant Surgeon
Corewell Health