Prof Stefan D Anker is a German cardiologist born in Berlin, Germany. He studied medicine at Charité Medical School of Humboldt University Berlin, where he completed his medical degree in 1993. He later pursued research training at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, completing his PhD in 1998. Following his return to Germany, Prof Anker held academic and research positions at Charité Berlin and later at University Medical Center Göttingen before returning to Charité in 2017 to serve as Professor of (Tissue) Homeostasis in Cardiology & Metabolism. His work has taken him across multiple institutions and countries through long-standing international collaborations.

Academic History

Prof Anker began his medical education at Charité Medical School, graduating in 1993. He then continued postgraduate academic training in both Germany and the United Kingdom, completing his PhD at the National Heart & Lung Institute in London…

Prof Paola Fioretto is a Professor of Medicine at University of Padova, Padua, IT.

Her research interest includes the effects of glucose lowering therapies on the development and progression of diabetic kidney disease.

Prof Fioretto started her research on renal physiology in diabetes and during her PostDoc Research Fellowship at the University of Minnesota, she devoted her interest to renal structure and ultrastructure in diabetes. 

Prof Michel Jadoul is a Clinical Professor at Université catholique de Louvain, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, BE.

Prof Jadoul's clinical activities include the follow-up of hemodialysis and CKD patients. His main research interests include hepatitis C, beta2m amyloidosis and other complications in hemodialysis patients, as well as CV complications after kidney TP and various causes of kidney disease (especially drugs).

He has (co)-authored over 330 scientific papers, most of them published in major nephrology journals.