Professor Hans-Joachim Anders is Professor of Nephrology and Head of Renal Division, Inner City Campus at the University of Munich (LMU).
Professor Anders qualified as MD from the University of Würzburg 1995, where he performed his doctoral thesis in experimental cardiology. He started his clinical training as an internist at the LMU Munich and specialized in nephrology under the supervision of Professor Detlef Schlöndorff. Further clinical training included rheumatology and scientific training in immunology.
Professor Anders works on the molecular mechanisms of kidney injury and repair. Specifically, the research of the Anders group focuses the mechanisms kidney necroinflammation in ischemic, embolic, and toxic forms of acute kidney injury. Another focus is kidney remodelling in chronic kidney disease.
Being a physician scientist, lupus and lupus nephritis is of his particular interest, clinically and experimentally. Professor Anders have lectured widely across the world both on science and clinical nephrology.