Dr Sumoyee Basu graduated from the University of Oxford Medical School in 2013 with First Class Honors in her BA. She undertook her clinical training in London including Renal training at the Hammersmith and Royal Free Hospitals. She began her specialist training in nephrology in South London in 2017. Alongside clinical rotations she conducted work that led to poster and oral presentations at major meetings including the following nephrology conferences UKKW, ASN and ERA-EDTA. Undertaking an academic clinical fellowship with Professors Lombardi and Dorling labs at KCL in 2018-2019 reinforced her research interest in transplantation immunology.

Alongside this she achieved a distinction in the PGCERT in Research and Statistical Methods at KCL. In 2020 Sumoyee was awarded an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship. Her PhD project aims to gain insights into how sensitisation arises in the context of renal transplantation and pregnancy and whether variation seen is due to the ability of patients’ regulatory T cells (Tregs) to suppress interactions between alloreactive T and B cells.