Prof. Moin Saleem University of Bristol, UK

Moin Saleem is Professor of Paediatric Renal Medicine at the University of Bristol. He trained as an undergraduate at University College London and received his PhD in transplantation immunology at the Institute of Child Health, London. He conducted Paediatric nephrology training at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. He set up... read morehis own independent laboratory programme in glomerular cell biology in Bristol, as well as holding a post as a consultant paediatric nephrologist since 1999. He now heads Bristol Renal, a glomerular research group of approximately 45 researchers, covering all areas from cell biology, transgenic models and population cohorts and genetics. His main focus is on podocyte biology (H index 68). He was the originator of the UK Renal Rare Disease Registry (RaDaR), and he currently leads the UK nephrotic syndrome study (NephroS), as well as a major industry-academic collaboration termed NURTuRE (National Unified Renal Translational Research Enterprise). He is PI on several MRC projects, including Stratified Medicine, laboratory project grants and a Global Challenges programme.