LUNDS UNIVERSITET

The participants from Lund University (ULUND) are members of the Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC), with ~320 staff members working towards improved diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diabetes. They are located at the Clinical Research Centre of the University, in close connection to the Skåne University Hospital, creating the ideal setting for both basic and clinical research.

ULUND will participate primarily in WP3 and WP5 activities and to a minor extent in WP6 and WP7. Prof Maria F. Gomez will act as PRIME-CKD vice coordinator, working closely with the coordinator.

People involved in Prime-CKD

Maria F. Gomez

Maria F. Gomez – Professor of Physiology at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Director of Lund University Diabetes Centre (http://www.ludc.lu.se) and Honorary Skou Professor at the Faculty of Health, Aarhus University, Denmark. After medical school, she completed her Ph.D. in physiology (Lund University; 1998) and post-doctoral studies in Pharmacology (University of Vermont; 2001). She has published ~136 papers and supervised 11 PhD theses, 13 post-docs and >30 students. She’s coordinator of IMI project BEAt-DKD (https://www.beat-dkd.eu/) and vice-coordinator of PRIME-CKD.

Anders Christensen

Anders Christensen – Professor of Nephrology at the Department of Clinical Sciences Malmo, Lund University and Head physician of Nephrology at Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden. After medical school he completed his PhD in clinical chemistry (Lund University 1993). Postdoc at Rockefeller University, MSKCC, New York. His research is focused on GFR-markers, chronic kidney disease, protein research and epidemiology. He has published 100 papers and supervised 7 PhD theses. He is program director for renal care in Sweden.

Christopher Nilsson

Christopher Nilsson – Post doc at the Department of Clinical Sciences Malmo, Lund University. After graduating from medical school at Lund University in 2017, he completed his Ph.D. in internal medicine (Lund University; 2021) focusing on the relationship between ethnicity, blood pressure and renal function. He is currently undergoing his medical residency in Internal medicine and Nephrology at Skåne University Hospital, Malmo.

Abrar Ahmad

Abrar Ahmad – Postdoc at the Department of Clinical Sciences Malmo, Lund University. After graduating from veterinary school at University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan, he completed his master’s degree in Molecular Medical Biology at Örebro University, Sweden in 2012 and his Ph.D. in medical sciences at Lund University in 2018. His Ph.D. project focused on the identification of genetic biomarkers for the risk prediction of recurrent venous thromboembolism. He has published ~17 papers in the fields of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes.

Hugo Fitipaldi

Hugo Fitipaldi – Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University. Hugo Fitipaldi holds a BSc in Physiotherapy from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2013) and an MSc in Public Health (MPH) from Lund University (2018). He completed his PhD at the Lund University Diabetes Centre (2023), where he focused on the application of data mining and artificial intelligence to derive public health evidence from large health datasets.

Jacqueline Postma

Jacqueline Postma – Jacqueline did her MSc in Biology (Utrecht University; 1995), a PhD in Environmental Sciences (Wageningen University; 2003), followed by post-doctoral studies in Plant Ecology (Lund University; 2007), after which she switched to her career at LUDC. She is project manager for the IMI project BEAt-DKD (https://www.beat-dkd.eu/), as she was previously for IMI-SUMMIT (2009-2015). Jacqueline will be supporting Maria Gomez in PRIME-CKD.