Biography

Jamil R. Azzi MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the medical director of the vascularized composite allo-transplantation (VCA) and the associate director of the kidney and pancreas transplant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Azzi is an immunologist who is leading a NIH funded laboratory that focuses on understanding the immune-regulatory arm of the immune system in transplantation, autoimmunity and cancer with the goal of developing more targeted and safer therapeutic strategies. Dr. Azzi’s laboratory is also exploring multiple genomics and proteomics approaches to develop biomarkers that noninvasively detect rejection in kidney transplant recipients and inflammatory kidney diseases in addition to measuring the immune function of immunosuppressed patients. Works from his laboratory resulted in a new urine test to detect rejection.