Nephrologist Friedrich C. Luft Receives Prestigious Awards in Milan and Berlin
The prestigious award was for his important contributions to the molecular and clinical approaches to hypertension research. This award was for lifetime achievements and included a lectureship. Björn Folkow, MD, PhD was Professor of Physiology at the University of Göteborg, Sweden. Folkow described fundamentally important modifications in the blood vessel wall in patients with hypertension. At this year’s World Congress of Nephrology meeting in Berlin, Prof. Luft also received the “Anthony Raine Award” from the International Society of Nephrology. That award, which also includes a lectureship, is in memory of Anthony Raine, Professor of Nephrology at the St. Bartholomew's & the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK. Raine was a nephrologist who devoted his career to cardiovascular issues in patients with chronic renal diseases.
Friedrich C. Luft was born on March 4, 1942 in Berlin, and was raised in the USA. He studied medicine at the Jefferson Medical School of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Indiana. Prof. Luft thereafter joined the Faculty of the University of Erlangen, Germany in 1989. Since 1992, he is Professor of Medicine and Nephrology at the Franz Volhard Clinic for Cardiovascular Diseases, Helios-Klinikum, Berlin-Buch. The Clinic is an integral part of the Charité, (Campus-Buch) Humboldt University of Berlin. Prof. Luft also heads a research group at the MaxDelbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, a national research laboratory of the Helmholtz Association. Prof. Luft has received numerous awards for his research and teaching. The awards include: Outstanding Professor of Medicine, IndianaUniversity, The Arthur Corcoran Award, American Heart Association, the Ernest Starling Award, American Physiological Society, the Franz Gross Award, German Society of Hypertension and the Helmut and Ruth Lingen Foundation Award.
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