
Reza Abdi
Director of Transplant Nephrology and Kidney Transplant Immunobiology · UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
Credentials: · ·
History
PresentTransplant Nephrology and Kidney Transplant Immunobiology · UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
- 1994–1996
Nephrology
- 1991–1994
Internal Medicine
- 1987–1991
Doctor of Medicine
Research
Shattering barriers toward clinically meaningful MSC therapies
Review · Science Advances · 2020 · 558 citations
Immunomodulation by mesenchymal stem cells: a potential therapeutic strategy for type 1 diabetes
Review · Diabetes · 2008 · First of 5 authors · Corresponding · 358 citations
Acute and long-term disruption of glycometabolic control after SARS-CoV-2 infection
Nature Metabolism · 2021 · 326 citations
- VK
31 papers · 6 as a fellow
- JA
28 papers · 9 as a fellow

27 papers
- MU
27 papers · 13 as a resident
- MS
24 papers
- ST
23 papers
- LJ
17 papers · 17 as a resident

16 papers
Grants
- 2020–2031
Lymph Nodes at the Crossroads of Alloimmunity and Regulation
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · P01
Contact PI · $7.8M · University of California Los Angeles
- 2025–2030
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · P01
Project lead · $668.1K · University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh
- 2023–2030
Targeted Immune Therapies in Heart Transplantation
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · R35
Contact PI · $4.1M · University of California Los Angeles
- 2024–2029
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · P01
Contact PI · $7.1M · Brigham and Women's Hospital
Clinical trials
- 2018–2023
Contrast Enhanced Ultrasonography to Detect Human Renal Transplant Rejection
Principal investigator · Completed · Phase 2
Brigham and Women's Hospital

