Profile
- Education: Programs for students in medicine and biomedical sciences (BMS); Supervision of bachelor and master students for their elective modules and master theses; Supervision and mentoring of PhD students in the graduate program in Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB); Continuing education program CAS/DAS in Translational Nephrology (in collaboration with the University of Zurich)
- Preclinical Research: Exploring mechanisms of renal function loss in acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic intrauterine hypoxia (DOHaD); Investigating the roles of transporters in polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD); Developing novel tools for ex vivo renal diagnostics; Studying factors affecting the steroid hormone metabolome.
- Clinical Research: Focus on kidney stone formation, chronic allograft failure, lupus nephritis (registry), glomerulopathies, frailty, and inflammation in CKD patients, transport mechanisms in peritoneal dialysis. Includes investigator-initiated trials (e.g., Bern ADPKD and Bern Kidney Stone registries, PEAK, SWEETSTONE, and INDAPACHLOR trials).
External Partners
Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Sorbonne University, Paris, France; Vivantes Klinikum im Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany; Center for Dialysis, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany; Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany; Università Cattolica del sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland; Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland; Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; University of Applied Sciences and Art Northwestern Switzerland, Muttenz, Switzerland; University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Department of Physiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA; Division of Nephrology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA
Grants
- AIRG-Suisse
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, University of Bern
- CSL Behring AG
- CSL Vifor
- Schweizerische Nierenstiftung
- IFCAH (International Fundraising for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia)
- Otsuka Pharmaceuticals
- SF Board Call, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern
- Swiss Kidney Foundation
- Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant numbers: 188762, 219449, 229838, 10000507, 10002363, 10003460)
