Research Summary
Dr. Sandy Feng is a transplant surgeon who performs liver, kidney and pancreas transplants.
In her research, Feng studies transplantation tolerance, a transplant recipient's ability to maintain normal organ function with minimal or no use of immunosuppressive drugs. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, she has led several multicenter clinical trials to study tolerance in both adult and pediatric liver transplant recipients.
Feng is a graduate of Harvard College, where she received the prestigious Marshall Scholarship. She completed a doctorate in molecular biology at the University of Cambridge and earned her medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine. She completed a general surgery residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital, followed by a transplant fellowship at UCSF.
Feng has held leadership positions in prominent professional societies and with the United Network for Organ Sharing. She has organized several national conferences addressing issues critical to the transplantation community, serves on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine and is the editor-in-chief for the American Journal of Transplantation.
Research Funding
August 10, 2017 - July 31, 2021 - PROSPECTIVE LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF IWITH SCREEN FAILURES SECONDARY TO HISTOPATHOLOGY , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01DK114180
June 1, 2014 - May 31, 2021 - Donor-Alloantigen-Reactive Regulatory T Cell Therapy in Liver Transplantation , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: U01AI110658
February 1, 2013 - January 31, 2020 - Polyclonal Tregs to Promote Tolerance in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: U01AI104347
July 27, 2012 - June 30, 2019 - Immunosuppression Withdrawal for Stable Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: U01AI100807
Education
Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, Cambridge, MA, B.A., 1979-1982, Chemistry
Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, Ph.D., 1982-1985, Molecular Biology
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, M.D., 1985-1990, Medicine