Tobias Huber GermanyUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Tobias B. Huber is Chair of the Center of Internal Medicine, Director of the III. Department of Medicine (Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Transplantation) and Director of the Hamburg Center for Kidney Health at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). Together with his team he is internationally recognized for discovering signalling pathways relevant for kidney development, filtration, maintenance and disease. He published over 300 articles, is one of the worldwide most cited podocyte researches, received numerous national and international recognitions including the Franz-Volhard award of the German Society of Nephrology (2010), the Donald W. Seldin Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Nephrology (2012), the Marilyn Farquhar lifetime research achievement award for glomerular biology of the International Podocyte Conference (2023), and the award for outstanding basic science contributions to nephrology of the European Renal Association (2023). He is elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians and the National Academy of Sciences – Leopoldina-. A major focus of his career has been to mentor, educate and facilitate careers of young talents and clinician-scientists. Recently he was elected as inaugural president of the newly formed International Society for Glomerular Disease.