Faculty Mentors
Director

Peter G. Stock, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Surgical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program
Surgical Director, Pediatric Renal Transplant Program
Co-Director, Pancreatic Islet Cell Transplant Program
Program, Director, T32 Training Program in Transplant Surgery
Co-Director

Minnie M. Sarwal MD, PhD
Clinical Research Training

Nancy L. Ascher, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Division of Transplant Surgery
Isis Distinguished Professor in Transplantation

Atul Butte, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Pediatrics


James M. Gardner, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of Transplant Surgery
Investigator, UCSF Diabetes Center
Director, UCSF VITAL Core

Sang-Mo Kang, MD
Professor of Surgery
Division of Transplant Surgery
Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation
UCSF-Benioff Children’s Hospital

Jasleen Kukreja, MD, MPH
Professor of Surgery
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Doris F. and Donald G. Fisher Distinguished Professor
Director, Lung Transplantation
Director, Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion
Director, Advanced Lung Disease ECMO Support

Tippi MacKenzie, MD
Professor of Surgery
Benioff UCSF Professor of Children’s Health
Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF
Co-Director, Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine
John G. Bowes Distinguished Professor of Stem Cell and Tissue Biology

Amar Nijagal, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Pediatric Surgery
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco
Surgical Director, UCSF Pediatric Liver Center

Andrew M. Posselt, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Division of Transplant Surgery
Director, Pancreatic Islet Transplant Program

John P. Roberts, MD
Professor of Surgery
Division of Transplant Surgery
Endowed Chair in Abdominal Transplantation

Flavio Vincenti, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Surgery
Departments of Medicine and Surgery
Endowed Chair in Kidney Transplantation
Scientific Research Training

Mark Anderson, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Robert B. Friend and Michelle M. Friend Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research
UCSF Diabetes Center

Atul Butte, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Pediatrics

Tammy T. Chang, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Division of General Surgery

Matthias Hebrok, PhD
Professor and Director,
Diabetes Center

Lewis Lanier, PhD
- American Cancer Society Professor and Chair,
Department of Microbiology and Immunology - UCSF Leader, Cancer Immunology Program
- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
- J. Michael Bishop, MD, Distinguished Professor in Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF

Zoltan G. Laszik, MD, PhD
Professor of Clinical Pathology
Department of Pathology

Alexander Marson, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, UCSF
Microbiology and Immunology
Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, and UCSF Diabetes Center
Scientific Director of Biomedicine, Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI)
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator

Michael A. Matthay, MD
Professor of Medicine and Anesthesia
Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine Program
Associate Director, Critical Care Medicine
Research Lab Director, Acute lung Injury and ARDS: Research and Clinical Trials
Department of Medicine

Shuvo Roy, PhD
Professor, Departments of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences and Surgery
UCSF Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine
Engineering Lead, Surgical Innovations Program
Director, Biodesign Laboratory
UCSF Faculty Director, UC Berkeley-UCSF Master of Translational Medicine (MTM) Program
Technical Director, The Kidney Project

Julie Sneddon, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cell and Tissue Biology
School of Dentistry

Qizhi Tang, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Division of Transplant Surgery
Director, Transplantation Research Laboratory

Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Member, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research
Associate Director, Liver Center