Vaneet K Sandhu is Vice President of Clinical Development at Fate Therapeutics, where she leads the development of the company’s clinical programs in autoimmunity. Previously, she was a practicing rheumatologist at Loma Linda University Health, serving as the Rheumatology Fellowship Program Directorm and Director of the rheumatology clinics at Riverside University Health System. Her academic contributions include leading numerous clinical trials, establishing lupus and systemic sclerosis registries, and conducting funded research on health services in patients with rheumatic disease and biomarker development in SLE. Vaneet earned her MBBS from Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (India) and an MS in Academic Medicine from the University of Missouri. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at Loma Linda University Health and Rheumatology fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.