Prof. Bernd Hohenstein

Professor Hohenstein is working as a specialist for Internal Medicine and Nephrology at the Nephrological Center Villingen-Schwenningen and Professor at the Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus in Dresden, Germany. He studied Medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he graduated, finished his residency and finalized his lecturer thesis. In 2007 he successfully completed a research fellowship at the Renal Research Institute, New York Medical College, Valhalla, USA. In 2009 he became a senior consultant physician at the Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine III of the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus and received an endowed Professorship for Extracorporeal Techniques, lipoprotein apheresis and metabolic disorders from the Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universitaet Dresden. Prof. Hohenstein’s key areas of interest are mechanisms of glomerular and especially endothelial injury and repair during glomerulonephritis and corresponding cellular interactions. He is furthermore investigating clinical aspects and mechanisms of apheresis therapy, glomerulonephritis and complement mediated disorders. He is initiator and driving force of the Registry for C3 Glomerulopathy and Immune-complex mediated MPGN (www.C3Gnet.de) of the German Society of Nephrology. He is member of the executive board of the Association of German Kidney Centers and distinct activities in the German Society of Nephrology. Prof. Hohenstein is the immediate past-president of the European Group – International Society for Apheresis and the International Society for Apheresis. Since 2000 he has been involved in a large number of clinical phase II-IV trials in the field of glomerulonephritis, chronic kidney disease, hyperlipidemia, transplantation and diabetes.

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