Sang-Mo Kang, MD

Title(s)Professor, Surgery
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Address505 Parnassus Avenue, #M893B
San Francisco CA 94117
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    Harvard UniversityM.D.1992School of Medicine
    University of California, San Francisco, CA05/2021Diversty, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training

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    Dr. Sang-Mo Kang is an organ transplant surgeon, performing transplants of the kidney, liver and pancreas. His expertise includes gastrointestinal surgery, laparoscopic kidney donor surgery, laparoscopic liver surgery, and surgeries related to the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.

    Kang maintains a research laboratory focused on understanding how the immune system responds to transplanted organs. He investigates new methods to induce transplant-specific tolerance, with the goal of replacing immunosuppressive medications. He has been awarded research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and American Society of Transplant Surgeons.

    Kang earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School and completed a surgical residency and transplant fellowship at UCSF Medical Center. He received two research fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which he used to study transplant immunology at the NIH and the UCSF Transplantation Research Laboratory.

    Kang teaches fellows, residents and medical students at UCSF.

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    Donor-Alloantigen-Reactive Regulatory T Cell Therapy in Liver Transplantation
    NIH U01AI110658Jun 1, 2014 - May 31, 2021
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    Donor-Specific Regulatory T Cell Therapy in Liver Transplantation
    NIH R34AI095135Apr 1, 2012 - Mar 31, 2014
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    Tolerance Induction Using Modified Dendritic Cells
    NIH R03DK075431Apr 1, 2007 - Mar 31, 2010
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Tolerance Induction Using Modified Dendritic Cells
    NIH K08DK061970Apr 1, 2003 - Mar 31, 2008
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Advantages and Limitations of Clinical Scores for Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation. Front Surg. 2021; 8:808733. Meier RPH, Kelly Y, Yamaguchi S, Braun HJ, Lunow-Luke T, Adelmann D, Niemann C, Maluf DG, Dietch ZC, Stock PG, Kang SM, Feng S, Posselt AM, Gardner JM, Syed SM, Hirose R, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Roberts JP, Roll GR. PMID: 35071316; PMCID: PMC8766343.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 3  
    2. Non-operative management of biliary complications after Liver Transplantation in pediatric patients: A 30-year experience. Pediatr Transplant. 2021 Sep; 25(6):e14028. Lee AY, Lehrman ED, Perito ER, Kerlan RK, Kohi MP, Kolli KP, Taylor AG, Ostroff JW, Kang SM, Roberts JP, Rhee S, Rosenthal P, Fidelman N. PMID: 33951255.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    3. Expanding living donor liver transplantation: Report of first US living donor liver transplant chain. Am J Transplant. 2021 04; 21(4):1633-1636. Braun HJ, Torres AM, Louie F, Weinberg SD, Kang SM, Ascher NL, Roberts JP. PMID: 33171017; PMCID: PMC8016700.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions:    Fields:    Translation:Humans
    4. COVID-19 and Abdominal Transplant: A Stepwise Approach to Practice During Pandemic Conditions. Transplantation. 2020 11; 104(11):2215-2220. Syed SM, Gardner J, Roll G, Webber A, Mehta N, Shoji J, Adelmann D, Niemann C, Braun HJ, Mello A, Yao F, Posselt A, Kang SM, Hirose R, Roberts J, Feng S, Ascher N, Stock P, Freise C. PMID: 32639408; PMCID: PMC7363383.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 4     Fields:    Translation:HumansCellsPHPublic Health
    5. Inferior Long-Term Graft Survival of Suboptimal Kidneys After Living Donor Kidney Transplantation. Transplant Proc. 2020 Jul - Aug; 52(6):1734-1740. Yamanaga S, Freise CE, Stock PG, Rosario A, Fernandez D, Kobayashi T, Tavakol M, Kang SM. PMID: 32446691.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    6. Long-Term Safety, Immunologic Response, and Imaging Outcomes following Neural Stem Cell Transplantation for Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. Stem Cell Reports. 2019 08 13; 13(2):254-261. Gupta N, Henry RG, Kang SM, Strober J, Lim DA, Ryan T, Perry R, Farrell J, Ulman M, Rajalingam R, Gage A, Huhn SL, Barkovich AJ, Rowitch DH. PMID: 31378671; PMCID: PMC6700500.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 24     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    7. Inferior long-term graft survival after end-to-side reconstruction for two renal arteries in living donor renal transplantation. PLoS One. 2018; 13(7):e0199629. Yamanaga S, Rosario A, Fernandez D, Kobayashi T, Tavakol M, Stock PG, Kang SM. PMID: 29995911; PMCID: PMC6040747.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 3     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    8. A Single Perioperative Injection of Dexamethasone Decreases Nausea, Vomiting, and Pain after Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy. J Transplant. 2017; 2017:3518103. Yamanaga S, Posselt AM, Freise CE, Kobayashi T, Tavakol M, Kang SM. PMID: 28210502; PMCID: PMC5292178.
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    9. Interpretation of transplant biopsies and immune responses following Treg cell therapy. Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2014 Dec; 19(6):616-20. Tang Q, Kang SM. PMID: 25313874; PMCID: PMC4825683.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 4     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    10. Neural stem cell engraftment and myelination in the human brain. Sci Transl Med. 2012 Oct 10; 4(155):155ra137. Gupta N, Henry RG, Strober J, Kang SM, Lim DA, Bucci M, Caverzasi E, Gaetano L, Mandelli ML, Ryan T, Perry R, Farrell J, Jeremy RJ, Ulman M, Huhn SL, Barkovich AJ, Rowitch DH. PMID: 23052294; PMCID: PMC3893824.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 126     Fields:    Translation:HumansCellsCTClinical Trials
    11. Altered balance between effector T cells and FOXP3+ HELIOS+ regulatory T cells after thymoglobulin induction in kidney transplant recipients. Transpl Int. 2012 Dec; 25(12):1257-67. Tang Q, Leung J, Melli K, Lay K, Chuu EL, Liu W, Bluestone JA, Kang SM, Peddi VR, Vincenti F. PMID: 22994802.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 21     Fields:    Translation:HumansCellsCTClinical Trials
    12. CD4(+)Foxp3(+) regulatory T cell therapy in transplantation. J Mol Cell Biol. 2012 Feb; 4(1):11-21. Tang Q, Bluestone JA, Kang SM. PMID: 22170955; PMCID: PMC3695644.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 82     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    13. Expansion of a unique CD57⁺NKG2Chi natural killer cell subset during acute human cytomegalovirus infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Sep 06; 108(36):14725-32. Lopez-Vergès S, Milush JM, Schwartz BS, Pando MJ, Jarjoura J, York VA, Houchins JP, Miller S, Kang SM, Norris PJ, Nixon DF, Lanier LL. PMID: 21825173; PMCID: PMC3169160.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 400     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    14. Experience with laparoscopic donor nephrectomy among more than 1000 cases: low complication rates, despite more challenging cases. Arch Surg. 2011 Jul; 146(7):859-64. Ahearn AJ, Posselt AM, Kang SM, Roberts JP, Freise CE. PMID: 21768434.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 7     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    15. Hepatic surgery at a VA tertiary medical center: lessons learned. Am J Surg. 2010 Nov; 200(5):591-5. Alemi F, Kwon E, Freise C, Kang SM, Hirose R, Stewart L, Corvera CU. PMID: 21056134.
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    16. A new T-cell receptor transgenic model of the CD4+ direct pathway: level of priming determines acute versus chronic rejection. Transplantation. 2008 Jan 27; 85(2):247-55. Brennan TV, Hoang V, Garrod KR, Liu FC, Hayden T, Kim J, Kang SM. PMID: 18212630.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 29     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    17. The activating immunoreceptor NKG2D and its ligands are involved in allograft transplant rejection. J Immunol. 2007 Nov 15; 179(10):6416-20. Kim J, Chang CK, Hayden T, Liu FC, Benjamin J, Hamerman JA, Lanier LL, Kang SM. PMID: 17982029.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 35     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    18. Investigating the immunological mechanisms underlying organ transplant rejection. J Vis Exp. 2007; (7):256. Kang SM. PMID: 18989428; PMCID: PMC2565850.
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    19. Small bowel transplantation in mice. J Vis Exp. 2007; (7):258. Liu F, Kang SM. PMID: 18989430; PMCID: PMC2565857.
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    20. Heterotopic heart transplantation in mice. J Vis Exp. 2007; (6):238. Liu F, Kang SM. PMID: 18997886; PMCID: PMC2557111.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 10     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    21. Targeted lymphoid homing of dendritic cells is required for prolongation of allograft survival. J Immunol. 2006 Jul 15; 177(2):863-8. Garrod KR, Chang CK, Liu FC, Brennan TV, Foster RD, Kang SM. PMID: 16818740.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 21     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    22. More than 500 consecutive laparoscopic donor nephrectomies without conversion or repeated surgery. Arch Surg. 2005 Sep; 140(9):835-9; discussion 839-40. Melcher ML, Carter JT, Posselt A, Duh QY, Stoller M, Freise CE, Kang SM. PMID: 16172291.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 16     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    23. Laparoscopic procurement of kidneys with multiple renal arteries is associated with increased ureteral complications in the recipient. Am J Transplant. 2005 Jun; 5(6):1312-8. Carter JT, Freise CE, McTaggart RA, Mahanty HD, Kang SM, Chan SH, Feng S, Roberts JP, Posselt AM. PMID: 15888035.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 31     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    24. Laparoscopic right donor nephrectomy: a large single-center experience. Transplantation. 2004 Dec 15; 78(11):1665-9. Posselt AM, Mahanty H, Kang SM, Stoller ML, Meng MV, Roberts JP, Freise CE. PMID: 15591957.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 11     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    25. Congenital choledochal cysts in adults. Arch Surg. 2004 Aug; 139(8):855-60; discussion 860-2. Visser BC, Suh I, Way LW, Kang SM. PMID: 15302695.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 45     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    26. Technique, indications and outcomes of pure laparoscopic right donor nephrectomy. J Urol. 2004 May; 171(5):1793-6. Abrahams HM, Freise CE, Kang SM, Stoller ML, Meng MV. PMID: 15076278.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 3     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    27. Excellent short-term results with steroid-free maintenance immunosuppression in low-risk simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation. Arch Surg. 2003 Oct; 138(10):1121-5; discussion 1125-6. Freise CE, Kang SM, Feng S, Hirose R, Stock P. PMID: 14557130.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 6     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    28. Techniques to optimize vascular control during laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. Urology. 2003 Jan; 61(1):93-7; discussion 97-8. Meng MV, Freise CE, Kang SM, Duh QY, Stoller ML. PMID: 12559274.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 6     Fields:    Translation:Humans
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