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Minnie Sarwal, MD, MRCP, DCH, Ph.D.
technical publications | invited lectureships
Dr. Sarwal is a pediatric transplant physician and research scientist, trained in the UK with a DCH from London University and an MRCP from the Royal College of Physicians. London. She also holds a degree in Molecular Biology from Christ's College, Cambridge University, from the Molecular Genetics Unit Laboratory of Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner. She is the recipient of Medical Research Council and National Kidney Foundation grants in the UK and NIH and Industry grants in the US for her efforts in translation research in transplantation, and has spearheaded the first steroid-free kidney transplant immunosuppression approach for children. She is an Associate Professor at Stanford, where she is involved in patient care and running a laboratory focusing on DNA microarray technology, genomics and proteomics research. She has authored 6 book chapters and over 50 publications and holds 2 patents. She has chaired numerous transplant symposia and transplant committees, is an Ad Hoc member of 4 NIH Study Sections, and has given over 100 lectures nationally and internationally.
Work Experience:
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University, USA.
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University, USA.
- Acting Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Stanford University, USA
- Staff Physician/Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Stanford University, USA
- Lecturer in Pediatric Nephrology, Guy's Hospital, London, UK.
- Lecturer in Nephrology, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University, UK.
Education:
- Ph.D in Molecular Genetics, Cambridge University, U.K.
- Membership of the
Royal College of Physicians, London, U.K.
With distinction. - Diploma in Child Health (D.C.H.), London, UK
With distinction. - M.B.B.S.. at Calcutta Medical College, Calcutta, India.
Distinctions in Surgery and Obstetrics/ Gynecology - I.S.C. at La Martiniere,
Calcutta, India. (undergraduate)
Distinctions in English Language and Literature
Publications:
Over fifty technical publications and over one hundred invited lectureships