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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.

  • Education

    Calcutta National Medical College West Bengal University of Health Sciences, 1986

  • Languages

    English

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Where I see patients (2)

    My reviews

    4.9

    Overall Experience
    78 Ratings
    About our process
    Mar 20, 2025
    I felt actually heard and the appropriate approach was taken as a result
    Feb 19, 2025
    Excellent experience the team at UCSF is wonderful.
    Sep 21, 2024
    I thought the care provider was excellent.
    Jul 05, 2024
    Dr. Sarwal is very knowledgeable of my history and current condition..
    Jul 04, 2024
    Not bad
    Jun 29, 2024
    The care provider, video host, is my regular care provider and I am very happy that they are.
    Dec 29, 2023
    Dr. Sarwal is excellent in every way.
    Dec 14, 2023
    Dr Sarwall is an absolute pleasure to talk to. Just as the providers before her.
    Sep 29, 2023
    Not only were recommendations made but how to execute on them was also discussed.
    Sep 02, 2023
    We were one with each other like a single life force floating through the cosmos.
    Aug 29, 2023
    She was fantastic. Great appointment-
    Jul 14, 2023
    Excellent I love seeing her yearly
    Jun 29, 2023
    Meeting seemed rushed. When I looked later at the summary, It mentioned we discussed many items that we never touched on, such as exercise, heart, skin and other physical concerns, primary care follow up. We also never discussed labwork.
    Decorative Caduceus

    KIDney Injury in Times of COVID-19 (KIDCOV)

    The 12-month continuous, quantitative Kidney Injury Test (KIT) score, measured on a scale of 0-100, where a higher urine-based KIT score correlates to worse kidney injury.

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