Professor Jürgen Floege

Director, Div. Nephrology and Clinical Immunology,University Hospital, Germany

Professor Jürgen Floege is head of the Division of Nephrology and Immunology at the University of Aachen, Germany in 1999. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the European Renal Assocation and recipient of the 2018 ERA Award for Outstanding Clinical Contributions to Nephrology. Together with Professors Richard Johnson, Marcello Tonelli and John Feehally he edits the best-selling textbook “Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology”. 

Finally, Professor Floege is associate editor of Kidney International since Jan 2018 and co-chair of the KDIGO guidelines for the management of glomerular diseases. Research interests encompass both basic research, i.e. studies underlying progression of renal disease in particular renal fibrosis, as well as clinical research in immune-mediated renal disease, in particular IgA-nephropathy, as well as bone and mineral disorders (CKD-MBD) and cardiovascular disease in uremic patients. His scientific work encompasses more than 700 original papers, reviews and editorials.