| | |  | | NEWSLETTER ::: NO. 16 ::: JUNE 2018 | | KIDNEY EXPERTS GATHER FOR ANNUAL RETREAT | | On February 1 and 2, 2018, the NCCR Kidney.CH invited its members to its 8th retreat, at the SBB Centre Loewenberg in Murten. | This annual event allows all NCCR members to meet and to exchange their ideas and research results with other renal experts from across Switzerland. This year, more than 80 participants took up the invitation.
After an informal welcome aperitif on February 1, the programme of the second day included numerous presentations, on topics ranging from oxygen to dietary impact as well as ion balance and calcification. Frank Eitner, Head of Cardiovascular II, Drug Discovery at Bayer AG in Wuppertal, Germany, had been invited as external guest speaker and gave the participants insights into ‘Kidney Diseases Research @ Bayer’. As part of the programme, the NCCR’s Junior Grant recipients—Johan Lorenzen, Alessandro Luciani, Carsten Scholz and Diane de Zélicourt—also presented their research.
This interesting and very lively retreat was brought to a close with a presentation from Christian Stockmann, professor at the Institute of Anatomy of the University of Zurich, entitled ‘Hypoxia and myeloid cell-driven angiogenesis in tissue fibrosis’.
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| | | | Kidney - Control of Homeostasis | | is a Swiss research initiative, headquartered at University of Zurich, which brings together leading specialists in experimental and clinical nephrology and physiology from the universities of Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, and Zurich, and corresponding university hospitals. |
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