Core Tasks

Academic fields

• Renal transplantation

• Living donor

• Deceased donor

• Transplantation to children

• Glomerulonephritis

• Nephrotic syndrome

• Interstitial nephritis

• Renal failure

• Dialysis

• Endocrinology in renal failure

• Secondary arterial hypertension

Core tasks

Diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic patients with renal disease as well as research in the same fields. The Department of Nephrology is a highly specialised nephrology department with centre-functions for vasculitis-related renal disease and renal transplantation. The Department teaches nurses and doctors at undergraduate and postgraduate levels of.

Heads of research in individual academic fields; Claus Bistrup, renal transplantation; Associate Professor Helle Thiesson, renal transplantation in children; Professor Martin Tepel, head of nephrology research unit.

The Department has six PhD students and 2 post.docs.

Research Areas

• Vascular health in chronic kidney disease

• Calium-phosphate metabolism in chronic kidney disease

• Vitamin D effects in chronic kidney disease

• Nephrotoxicity of immunosuppressive drugs

• Experimental research models of chronic renal allograft rejection

• Cancer in renal transplant patients

• Spiromolacton treatment after renal transplantation