NEPHROLOGY
Nephrology is a discipline that dedicates to the study of the diseases of the kidneys leading to renal failure. Nephrology emerged from Internal Medicine when techniques such as dialysis and transplantation became a secure option in the treatment of patients with renal failure.
Although there are a variety of kidneys diseases, the NRU concentrates their efforts in three main lines of investigation: hereditary nephropathies, such as Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease, Medullary Cystic Kidney Disease or Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease.
RESEARCH TEAM
Almeida, Edgar MD, PhD
GROUP LEADER
Edgar Almeida was born in 1961 and graduated in Medicine from the Lisbon School of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa, in 1985. He completed his residency in Nephrology at the Nephrology Department of Santa Maria University Hospital – CHULN, Lisbon, and became a board-certified nephrologist in 1992. In 2009, he obtained his PhD from the Lisbon School of Medicine with a thesis on Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.
Since 2012, he has served as Director of the Nephrology Unit at Hospital Beatriz Ângelo, Loures. His main research areas include Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease, hereditary nephropathies, and Chronic Kidney Disease.
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0702-4569
E-mail: edgar.almeida@hsm.min-saude.pt
Lopes, José António, MD, PhD
Senior Researcher
José Lopes obtained his MD (1997) and PhD (2009) in Nephrology from the Lisbon School of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. He is currently Associate Professor at the Lisbon School of Medicine and a Nephrologist at the Nephrology and Renal Transplantation Department of CHULN, Lisbon.
His main research areas include acute kidney injury and critical care.
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5563-5132
E-mail: jalopes93@hotmail.com