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Tobias B. Huber
Tobias B. Huber is a German physician-scientist and nephrologist who studies podocytes, directs kidney medicine at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, and led a 2024 New England Journal of Medicine study of antinephrin autoantibodies.
Tomás Berl
Tomás Berl is an American nephrologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, known for research on water excretion, hyponatremia, and vasopressin antagonists, and a past president of the American Society of Nephrology.
Ton J. Rabelink
Ton J. Rabelink, known as Ton Rabelink, is a Dutch nephrologist who is professor of internal medicine at Leiden University Medical Center, working on diabetic kidney disease and kidney regeneration.
Valérie A. Luyckx
Valérie A. Luyckx is a South African-trained nephrologist and physician-scientist at University Children's Hospital Zurich, known for her 2013 Lancet review linking low birth weight to kidney disease.
Vicente E. Torres
Vicente E. Torres, also known as Vicente Torres, is a nephrologist and professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who led the tolvaptan trials for ADPKD.
Vivekanand Jha
Vivekanand Jha is an Indian nephrologist and global-health researcher, Executive Director of The George Institute India and President of the International Society of Nephrology from 2019 to 2021.
Vivette D. D’Agati
Vivette D. D'Agati is an American renal pathologist who has directed Columbia University's Renal Pathology Division since 1984 and created the Columbia Classification of FSGS.
Vlado Perkovic
Vlado Perkovic is an Australian nephrologist and clinical trialist who led landmark international kidney disease trials including CREDENCE and FLOW, and became Provost of UNSW Sydney in 2023.
Wadi N. Suki
Wadi N. Suki is a Houston nephrologist and physician-scientist, born in Khartoum, Sudan, known for his 1970 paper on acute treatment of hypercalcemia with furosemide.
Warren E. Grupe
Warren E. Grupe (1933–2023) was an American pediatric nephrologist at Harvard Medical School whose 1976 chlorambucil trial established alkylating agents as standard therapy for frequently relapsing nephrotic syndrome in children.
Wayne A. Border
Wayne A. Border is a physician-scientist and emeritus professor of nephrology at the University of Utah whose 1992 Nature work identified decorin as a natural inhibitor of TGF-β-driven kidney scarring.
Willem Johan Kolff
Willem Johan Kolff (1911–2009) was a Dutch physician who built the first working artificial kidney in occupied Netherlands and led the team behind the first permanent artificial heart implant.
William E. Mitch
William E. Mitch is an American nephrologist known for defining the mechanisms of muscle wasting in chronic kidney disease and for clinical trials of restricted diets that slow kidney failure.
William E. Segar
William E. Segar (1923–2021) was an American pediatric nephrologist and salt-and-water physiologist who co-developed the Holliday-Segar pediatric fluid formula and adapted peritoneal dialysis for infants.
William G. Couser
William G. Couser (1939–2025) was an American nephrologist at the University of Washington whose research showed that glomerulonephritis immune deposits form in situ, and who later advanced kidney health in global policy.
William G. Goodman
William G. Goodman, also cited as W. G. Goodman, is a nephrologist at UCLA School of Medicine whose research established how disordered mineral metabolism in kidney failure damages bone and arteries.
William L. Henrich
William L. Henrich was an American nephrologist and dialysis researcher who served as president of UT Health San Antonio from 2009 to 2024 and led the CORAL trial.
Yang Xia
Yang Xia is a physician-scientist in biochemistry and molecular biology at McGovern Medical School, UTHealth Houston, known for a 2008 Nature Medicine study on pre-eclampsia autoantibodies.
Yashpal S. Kanwar
Yashpal S. Kanwar is a physician-scientist and nephrologist at Northwestern University who in 1979 reported heparan sulfate in the glomerular basement membrane and studies diabetic nephropathy.
Youhua Liu
Youhua Liu (刘友华) is a nephrology researcher known for studies of kidney fibrosis, formerly a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and now at Nanfang Hospital, Guangzhou.
Zheng Dong
Zheng Dong is a cell biologist and Regents' Professor at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta who studies cell death and repair in acute kidney injury.