MaartenTaal University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom

Maarten Taal MBChB, MMed, MD, FCP(SA), FRCP Maarten graduated from the University of Cape Town Medical School, South Africa, in 1987. After completing his post-graduate training in internal medicine and nephrology at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, he joined the Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Physiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA under the directorship of Barry M. Brenner, MD. His research focused on mechanisms underlying the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and earned him a Doctor of Medicine degree. He subsequently moved to the United Kingdom. He was appointed Professor of Medicine at the University on Nottingham in 2014, where he leads the Centre for Kidney Research and Innovation. He is a Past President of the British Renal Society and current Chair of the International Network of CKD Cohorts. He is Editor-in-Chief of “Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension”, Co-Editor for “Brenner and Rector’s The Kidney”, Academic Editor for “PLOS Medicine” and is on the Editorial Board for “American Journal of Kidney Diseases”.