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About Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Eckardt
- Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Eckardt is a Nephrologist with 16+ years of experience in the field.
- He is the founding member and former chairman of the International Association Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), and former board member of the German, European & International Society for Nephrology.
- After studying medicine at the University of Münster and at the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff, he received his doctorate at the Human Genetics Institute of the University of Münster.
- Later, he completed his habilitation in the field of physiology at the University of Regensburg.
- He has a keen interest in areas such as Diagnosis and treatment of kidney diseases like chronic kidney disease, acute renal failure, glomerular nephritis, polycystic kidney diseases, vasculitis, tubulopathies, kidney stone diseases, rare kidney diseases, etc.
- Dr. Eckardt has been the initiator and leader of a national cohort study on chronic kidney diseases and has written various publications in peer-reviewed journals.
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Graduation, Münster and Cardiff, UK(1978)
- Director, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen
- Head of Department, Erlangen-Nürnberg Transplant Centre
Papers Published
- Steubl, D., Schneider, M., Meiselbach, H., Nadal, J., Schmid, M.C., Saritas, T.,... Scherberich, J.E. (2020). Association of Serum Uromodulin with Death, Cardiovascular Events, and Kidney Failure in CKD. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 15(5), 616-624. https://dx.doi.org/10.2215/CJN.11780919
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- Neumeier, L., Thomson, R.B., Reichel, M., Eckardt, K.-U., Aronson, P.S., & Knauf, F. (2020). Enteric Oxalate Secretion Mediated by Slc26a6 Defends against Hyperoxalemia in Murine Models of Chronic Kidney Disease. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 31(9), 1987-1995. https://dx.doi.org/10.1681/ASN.2020010105
- Schlosser, P., Li, Y., Sekula, P., Raffler, J., Grundner-Culemann, F., Pietzner, M.,... Koettgen, A. (2020). Genetic studies of urinary metabolites illuminate mechanisms of detoxification and excretion in humans. Nature Genetics. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0567-8
- Di Maio, S., Grüneis, R., Streiter, G., Lamina, C., Maglione, M., Schoenherr, S.,... Coassin, S. (2020). Investigation of a nonsense mutation located in the complex KIV-2 copy number variation region of apolipoprotein(a) in 10,910 individuals. Genome Medicine, 12(1), 74-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13073-020-00771-0
- Xie, J., Liu, L., Mladkova, N., Li, Y., Ren, H., Wang, W.,... Kiryluk, K. (2020). The genetic architecture of membranous nephropathy and its potential to improve non-invasive diagnosis. Nature Communications, 11(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15383-w
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