Kai-uwe Eckardt MD

Kai-Uwe Eckardt is currently Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. He attained an MD from the University of Münster in 1985 and obtained residency and fellowship training in pathology, physiology, internal medicine and nephrology at the Universities of Münster, Hannover, Zurich, Oxford and the Charité in Berlin. From 2009 to 2016 he served as Vice Dean for Research and International Afffairs at the Medical Faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. As of April 2017 he will be Head of the Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care at the Charité in Berlin.

Dr. Eckardt´s major scientific interests lie in the molecular mechanisms and physiological / pathophysiological relevance of oxygen sensing and the development of acute and chronic renal injury. He was chairman of a collaborative research centre on kidney injury, founded by the German Research Foundation and is principal investigator of the German Chronic Kidney Disease (GCKD) study, a national CKD cohort study in Germany. He serves on the editorial boards of KI, NDT, J Mol Med and the BMJ. Dr. Eckardt is a past council member of the European Renal Association and current member of the Executive Council of the International Society of Nephrology.