Alan Salama

Consultant in Nephrology & Director | UCL Department of Renal Medicine, UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences

Professor Alan Salama is a consultant in Nephrology and director of the UCL Department of Renal Medicine, at the UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences. He specializes in immunological kidney diseases, with expertise in vasculitis, autoimmunity and kidney transplantation.
Alan trained in Oxford and in London at The London Hospital, Guy’s Hospital and The Hammersmith Hospital, completing a PhD at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and a post-doctoral period at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School researching transplantation immunology and tolerance. He supervises a laboratory investigating immune mediated kidney disease in the context of transplantation and autoimmunity, attempting to find better ways of diagnosing and managing the immune dysfunction in patients.