Nikolaos Skartsis, M.D., Ph.D.

Nikolaos Skartsis, M.D., Ph.D., is a transplant nephrologist, who is active in both clinical practice and research investigation. Dr. Skartsis is a physician/scientist with an overarching goal to promote the discovery of novel biologic drugs and cell therapies. His clinical practice is centered around the care of kidney transplant patients. In the laboratory, Dr. Skartsis is working on dissecting the molecular pathways that lead to organ rejection and generating the framework to discover novel targeted therapies to prevent kidney transplant rejection. Dr. Skartsis is an inventor of a novel method of ex-vivo Treg cell manufacturing that can be used in transplantation and autoimmune diseases. Dr. Skartsis has authored multiple scientific manuscripts and has given national and international invited lectures.