Kai-uwe Eckardt PhD

Kai-Uwe Eckardt is currently a 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 Affairs 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 center on kidney injury, founded by the German Research Foundation, and is the 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 a current member of the Executive Council of the International Society of Nephrology. He has served as program chair for the World Congress of Nephrology in 2009 and 2017. He was also a founding Executive Committee member and co-chair of Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO).