Aartik Sarma, MD
I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and Affiliate Faculty in the UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health.
My research is motivated by two key questions I frequently encounter in my clinical practice as an intensive care physician and pulmonologist: 1) Why do patients with same disease have such different responses to the same treatments?; and 2) Why are so many promising preclinical treatments ineffective in large clinical trials?
To address these questions, I am building a research program to study critical illness syndromes using a variety of multi-omic and computational tools. My research spans a wide range of scientific domains from characterizing molecular features of preclinical disease models to predicting individualized treatment effects in ICU clinical trials and identifying algorithmic biases in large observational data sets.
I am supported by a K23 Career Development Award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and received an Emerging Generation Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation. I serve as co-chair for the American Thoracic Society's Workshop on research standards for respiratory tract sampling and contribute as a site investigator for multiple clinical studies. I am a strong proponent of interdisciplinary team science to advance human health, and work with researchers across disciplines from cell biology to labor economics - if you have ideas for potential collaboration, please send me a message!
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