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Sindhu Chandran, MBBS

Sindhu Chandran, MBBS

  • Associate Professor of Medicine
  • Division of Nephrology
  • Department of Medicine

Contact Information

Academic Office
 Phone: (415) 353-8374
Fax: (415) 353-8974
sindhu.chandran@ucsf.edu
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Education

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, M.B., B.S., 2001

Residencies

  • University of Arizona, Intern, Medicine, 2004-2005
  • University of Arizona, Resident, Medicine, 2005-2007

Fellowships

  • Stanford University, Fellow, Medicine, 2007-2010
  • University of California, San Francisco, Fellow, Medicine, 2010-2011

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
  • American Board of Internal Medicine, Nephrology Subspecialty

Clinical Expertise

  • Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Immunosuppression for Kidney Transplantation
  • Kidney Transplantation
  • Living Kidney Donor Transplantation
  • Transplant Nephrology

Research Interests

  • Kidney Allocation
  • New-onset Diabetes After Transplantation (NODAT)
  • Protocol Kidney Biopsies

Biography

Dr. Chandran is an Assistant Professor at UCSF in the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology. A kidney and pancreas transplant specialist, Dr. Chandran is board certified in internal medicine and nephrology. She earned her medical degree at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, and completed her residency at the University of Arizona, a nephrology fellowship at Stanford University, and a Transplant Nephrology Fellowship at UCSF.  

Research & Funding

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ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4547-3381 Additional info
  • Applying precision MEdicine to optimize desensitization with noveL bIOlogics or cellular theRApies in highly sensiTized kidney transplant patiEnts (AMELIORATE)
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    Jul 2014
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    May 2024
    Co-Investigator
  • Novel Therapies to Modulate the Inflammatory Alloresponse in Renal Grafts
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    Jul 2014
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    Jun 2021
    Co-Investigator

Clinical Trials

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Publications

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 62
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  1. Sykes M, Chandran S, Kawai T, Levitsky J, Mapara M, Mathew J, Thomson A, Yamada K. Meeting Report: The Fifth International Samuel Strober Workshop on Clinical Immune Tolerance. Transplantation. 2023 Mar 01; 107(3):564-569. View in PubMed
  2. Duan M, Nguyen DC, Joyner CJ, Saney CL, Tipton CM, Andrews J, Lonial S, Kim C, Hentenaar I, Kosters A, Ghosn E, Jackson A, Knechtle S, Maruthamuthu S, Chandran S, Martin T, Rajalingam R, Vincenti F, Breeden C, Sanz I, Gibson G, Eun-Hyung Lee F. Human Bone Marrow Plasma Cell Atlas: Maturation and Survival Pathways Unraveled by Single Cell Analyses. bioRxiv. 2023 Jan 20. View in PubMed
  3. Chandran S, Tang Q. Impact of interleukin-6 on T cells in kidney transplant recipients. Am J Transplant. 2022 Dec; 22 Suppl 4:18-27. View in PubMed
  4. Hricik DE, Armstrong B, Alhamad T, Brennan DC, Bromberg JS, Bunnapradist S, Chandran S, Fairchild RL, Foley DP, Formica R, Gibson IW, Kesler K, Kim SJ, Mannon RB, Menon MC, Newell KA, Nickerson P, Odim J, Poggio ED, Sung R, Shapiro R, Tinckam K, Vincenti F, Heeger PS. Infliximab Induction Lacks Efficacy and Increases BK Virus Infection in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients: Results of the CTOT-19 Trial. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2023 01 01; 34(1):145-159. View in PubMed
  5. Chandran S, Mannon RB. T cell-mediated rejection in kidney transplant recipients: The end(point) is also the beginning. Am J Transplant. 2022 03; 22(3):683-684. View in PubMed
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Videos

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  1. What's hot & What's New in Transplant, 2015

 

 
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