Tobias B. Huber is Chair of the Center of Internal Medicine; Director of the III. Department of Medicine (Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Transplantation); and Director of the Hamburg Center for Kidney Health at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). Together with his team, he is internationally recognized for discovering signaling pathways relevant to kidney development, filtration, maintenance, and disease.
Dr. Huber has published over 360 articles, is one of the world's most cited podocyte researchers, and has received numerous national and international awards including the Franz-Volhard Award of the German Society of Nephrology (2010), the Donald W. Seldin Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Nephrology (2012), the Marilyn G. Farquhar Lifetime Research Achievement Award for glomerular biology of the International Podocyte Conference (2023), and the award for outstanding basic science contributions to nephrology of the European Renal Association (2023). He is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina).
A major focus of his career has been to mentor, educate and facilitate careers of young talents and clinician-scientists. In 2023 he was elected as inaugural president of the newly formed International Society of Glomerular Disease (ISGD).
