MSACL Presenter Biography

Kumar Sharma
University of California San Diego and the Veteran

Dr. Sharma is the Director of the Center for Renal Translational Medicine and Institute for Metabolomic Medicine and Professor of Medicine at UCSD in San Diego. He completed his MD and Internal Medicine residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. His clinical and research nephrology fellowship was completed at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Chair of the ISN Nexus Symposium, which is an international translational symposium, and previously served as Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physiology-Renal and the journal Diabetes. His focus in the past few years has been to develop novel biomarkers for chronic kidney disease and diabetic complications. In particular, recent metabolomic studies in humans have led to novel insights into the pathogenesis of diabetic complications and the role of the kidney in energy metabolism.