Sandy Feng, M.D. Ph.D. is a Professor of Surgery in Residence and the Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco. She is an active abdominal transplant surgeon who performs liver, kidney and pancreas transplants.
Dr. Feng is a graduate of Harvard College where she received the highly prestigious Marshall Scholarship. She completed a doctorate in molecular biology at the University of Cambridge at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology under Sir Aaron Klug, Nobel Laureate and earned a medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine. She completed a general surgery residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an abdominal surgery transplant fellowship at University of California San Francisco.
In her research, Dr. Feng studies tolerance, the ability for a transplant recipient to maintain normal organ function with minimal or even no immunosuppression. With many years of continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health, she has led several multi-center clinical trials to study tolerance in both adult and pediatric liver transplant recipients.
Dr. Feng has held multiple leadership positions in key professional societies and with the United Network for Organ Sharing. She has organized multiple national conferences addressing issues critical to the transplantation community. She has received numerous awards including American Society for the Study of Liver Diseases Thomas E. Starzl Transplant Surgery State of the Art Award, the American Society of Transplantation Clinician Scientist Investigator Award, and the American Surgical Association Flance-Karl Award. She currently serves on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine and is the Editor-in-Chief for the American Journal of Transplantation. In 2023, she was honored by election to the National Academy of Medicine.