Lab Members
Principal Investigator

James M. Gardner, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Transplant Surgery
Investigator, UCSF Diabetes Center
Director, UCSF VITAL Core
Lab Members

Mark Anderson, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Robert B. Friend and Michelle M. Friend Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research
UCSF Diabetes Center

Anil Bhushan PhD
Anil Bhushan, Professor
UCSF Diabetes Center

Simon N. Chu, MD, MS
Senior Resident (PGY-4)
General Surgery

Juan Du, PhD
Lab Manager

Eva Gillis-Buck, MD
Resident Research Fellow
General Surgery

Alexander Gupta, MD
Clinical Fellow (PGY-6)
Abdominal Transplant Surgery

Keith Hansen, MD
Graduate
General Surgery Residency Program, 2024

Matthias Hebrok, PhD
Professor and Director,
Diabetes Center

Nolan Horner
Staff Research Associate

Anita Qualls
Graduate Student

Hong Sun
Postdoctoral Fellow

Jiaxi (Jessica) Wang
Graduate Student, Biomedical Sciences

Han Yin
Medical Student

Peter Zhong, PhD
Associate Specialist