Sarah Huen, M.D., Ph.D.

Biography

Sarah Huen, M.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of its Division of Nephrology.

Originally from Chicago, Dr. Huen holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She earned her medical degree at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and completed internal medicine residency training at New York University. Motivated by a deep interest in the causes of acute kidney injury—and concerned by the lack of effective treatments—she pursued a research fellowship in nephrology at Yale University. There, she also earned a doctorate in investigative medicine while working in the laboratory of Lloyd Cantley, M.D., studying how macrophages contribute to kidney damage caused by reduced blood flow. Later, as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D., she focused on how the body adapts to systemic inflammation, exploring tissue tolerance and metabolic changes .

Personal Note

Outside of medicine and science, she enjoys cooking, photography and hiking.