Lab Members
Principal Investigators

Minnie M. Sarwal MD, PhD

Tara Sigdel, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Transplant Surgery
Postdoctoral Fellows

Swastika Sur, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Surgical Residents

Arya Zarinsefat, MD
Transplant Surgeon
Corewell Health
Biostatisticians

Patrick Boada, MS
Bioinformatician - Research Data Analyst 3
Research Assistants

Priyanka Rashmi PhD
Assistant Researcher
Clinical Research Coordinator
Alumni

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

Szu-Chuan Hsieh, MS
Associate Member

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

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