Minnie M. Sarwal, MD, PHD

Dr. Minnie M. Sarwal is a nephrologist who cares for patients undergoing kidney and pancreas transplantation. Providing care throughout the process, she has a special interest in using precision medicine to personalize transplantation for each patient. She is also interested in treating inherited metabolic disorders, such as cystinosis (tissue damage from buildup of an amino acid called cystine), oxalosis (problems caused by buildup in the blood of a compound called oxalate) and methylmalonic acidemia (problems caused by an inability to process certain proteins and fats).

Sarwal earned her medical degree at the Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, in India. She completed a residency in neonatology, pediatrics and surgery at Leicester Medical School in England, followed by fellowships in nephrology and surgery at Guy's Hospital in London, pediatrics at Leicester Royal Infirmary, pediatric cardiology at Groby Road Hospital in Leicester and immunology at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. She earned her doctorate in molecular genetics at the University of Cambridge under her mentor Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner.

Using high-throughput gene assays and artificial intelligence, Sarwal's research focuses on developing new tests to facilitate early diagnosis and treatment of organ rejection and infection in transplant recipients. Her lab has done pivotal work to produce commercially available tests for organ transplant rejection, including the blood tests kSORT and Prospera and the urine test QSant.

Sarwal is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.