PetterBjornstad AuroraUnited States

Dr. Petter Bjornstad is Executive Director of the UW Medicine Diabetes Institute, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, and the Raisbeck Endowed Chair of Diabetes Research at the University of Washington. He is an internationally recognized clinician-scientist leading a bench-to-bedside research program renowned for innovation in understanding diabetic kidney disease and its prevention. Dr. Bjornstad’s career is defined by three interconnected themes: (1) pioneering research kidney biopsies to reveal DKD at molecular resolution, (2) developing novel imaging biomarkers to detect early metabolic perturbations, and (3) translating discoveries into mechanistic clinical trials. By integrating single cell and spatial omics with hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamps, multiparametric MRI, and C-11 acetate PET, his group has uncovered sub-clinical metabolic injury and actionable pathways long before conventional markers signal decline. An author of more than 220 peer reviewed papers that span NEJM, Nature, JCI, and Circulation, Dr. Bjornstad sustains continuous federal support from NIH while leading foundation and industry collaborations.