Advisory Board
Leading experts in basic and applied research are members of SysKid’s advisory board. This prestigious setting assures top level coverage of the project and will contribute to SysKid’s success.
Dr. Emily Dimmer is coordinator of the Gene Ontology Annotation (GOA) Project at EMBL-EBI Cambridge, UK. One of the current annotation efforts of the GOA group is on providing high-quality manual annotations for proteins implicated in kidney development and disease.
http://www.ebi.ac.uk
Dr.Christiane Druml heads the Ethics Committee of the Medical University of Vienna.
http://www.meduniwien.ac.at
Dr. Harry Holthöfer is Director of the Center for Bioanalytical Sciences at Dublin City University. He has set up and served as coordinator of several EU funded programmes, among them DIANA (FP6) on diabetic nephropathy. He is a founding member of the International Committee to Standardise Proteomics Methods in Kidney Research and of the European Kidney Health Initiative.
http://www.dcu.ie
Dr. Matthias Kretzler is Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, USA and initiated the Nephromine database, a non-profit renal molecular profiling database aimed at advancing a molecular understanding of kidney disease and improving clinical outcomes.
http://www.med.umich.edu
Dr. Steve Ledbetter is Group Vice President CardioMetabolic and Renal Research at Genzyme Corporation, Framingham, USA.
http://www.genzyme.com/
Dr. Timothy W. Meyer, Professor of Medicine, is chief of the Nephrology division at Stanford University School of Medicine.
http://med.stanford.edu
Mark Murphy is member of the CEAPIR board. CEAPIR is a European non-profit umbrella organisation for currently 22 national kidney patient organisations in Europe.
http://www.ceapir.org
Dr. Peter Rutherford, a clinically trained nephrologist, is Medical Director, Renal - Europe, Middle East and Africa, Baxter Healthcare SA.
http://www.baxter.ch
Dr. Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer, Professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, is an clinical epidemiologist with major focus on kidney diseases.
http://med.stanford.edu
Dr. Salim Yusuf and Dr. Matt McQueen are key members of the Population Health Research Institute and McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada), the largest and most cited academic cardiovascular research group in Canada.
http://www.phri.ca
