Dr. Minnie Sarwal, MD, PhD

We are thrilled to be welcoming Dr. Minnie Sarwal from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) as our keynote speaker.

Sarwal 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 an internationally recognized leader in the fields of renal and transplant medicine, genomics, proteomics and immunology.

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 where she worked with Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner on the synthetic mapping of human and puffer fish G proteins.

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 is also a successful entrepreneur scientist and a founding member of the Rosenman Institute at UCSF.