Dr. Martin Stuart Zand, MD

Dr. Zand is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Rochester. He is the Medical Director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs, and co-director of the Center for Biodefense Immune Modeling. Dr. Zand graduated from Northwestern University with an undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering, a PhD in Cell, Molecular and Structural Biology, and an MD. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Nephrology at Beth Israel Medical Center and Harvard University in Boston. He joined University of Rochester Medical Center faculty in July 1998 as Medical Director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs. Dr. Zand has a clinical practice in Transplant Nephrology and Transplant Medicine, and sees patients with kidney and other solid organ transplants. He is an internationally recognized expert in B cell immunobiology in solid organ transplantation. He directs an active NIH funded research program in B cell immunobiology, …vaccine biology, and computational modeling of immune responses, and numerous clinical research studies.