About
Prof. Dr. med. Florian Grahammer has been Director of the University Transplant Center (UTC) at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) since 2018 and Deputy Head of the 3rd Department of Medicine (Nephrology) since 2017. Since 2020 he has also been Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Research Center CRC 1192 "Immune-mediated glomerular diseases." Career: Grahammer studied medicine from 1996 to 2003 at the Universities of Freiburg, Leeds, and Tübingen, and completed his doctorate in Freiburg in 2003. From 2005 to 2009 he held various positions in nephrology at University Hospital Freiburg, where he served as senior physician from 2012; he completed his habilitation in Freiburg in 2017 and additionally in Hamburg in 2018. He is board-certified in internal medicine, nephrology, emergency medicine, and transplant medicine. Research: Grahammer's research group studies glomerular biology and the renal filtration barrier, with focus on the structure and function of the slit diaphragm complex, signaling cascades in glomerulonephritis, the role of the mTOR pathway in kidney disease, and genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of kidney disease.
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