| | |  | | NEWSLETTER ::: NO. 17 ::: DEC 2018 | | TEMPORA MUTANTUR … | | Since its launch in 2010, the NCCR Kidney.CH has significantly contributed to the high visibility of Swiss kidney research. | Aside from cuttingedge research and the creation of sustainable structures including a Swiss Kidney Stone Cohort, the NCCR has made it possible to train dozens of new kidney researchers and to attract and support excellent young scientists. Now, the NCCR is entering its third 4-year phase. This is accompanied by several important changes. New colleagues (e.g. Felix Beuschlein and Soeren Lienkamp) are joining our research program, which is now focussing on three main work packages, dealing with the role of the kidney in oxygen homeostasis, with ion handling, and with the control of mineralisation. In order to strengthen translational medicine particular attention is being paid to the disease mechanism.
With the upcoming retirement of François Verrey in 2019, we also have a change in the leadership of the NCCR. Together with our NCCR colleagues, we would like to take this opportunity to thank François for his excellent leadership over the last eight years, and say that we are very much looking forward to continuing the NCCR’s success story and to developing it further in the coming years.
Johannes Loffing | | | Johannes Loffing Johannes Loffing is professor at the Institute of Anatomy of the University of Zurich and new Director of the NCCR Kidney.CH |
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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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