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Bernhard Banas (born 1966 in Munich, Germany) is a molecular biologist and physician specializing in nephrology and transplantation medicine. He is director of the Department of Nephrology and the University Transplant Center at the University of Regensburg, Germanɥref>Bernhard Banas Director of Nephrology</ref>[1][2]

Life and work

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Banas studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and then worked at the University Hospital in Munich from 1993 to 2003. There he gained experience as an internist, nephrologist, hypertensiologist, transplant physician and health economist (MBA).

In 2003, he joined the Clinic for Internal Medicine II at the University Hospital of Regensburg as an internist and nephrologist. In 2014, a new Department of Nephrology was established under his leadership. Banas gained international experience through research stays as an invited scientist in Seattle, Oxford and Boston. Since 2008, Banas has been the director of the University Transplant Center Regensburg and since 2013 also the director of the Clinic for Internal Medicine II (Kidney and Hypertension Diseases) at the Caritas Hospital St. Josef, Regensburg. He is also the medical director of the KfH Kidney Center Plato-Wild-Straße in Regensburg, Germany.

His scientific focus is on renal cell and tissue biology, inflammatory kidney diseases, kidney transplantation and biomarker development in clinical trials. He is funded by the German Research Foundation and the European Union, among others.

Memberships

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  • Past President and current Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the German Transplantation Society (DTG)
  • Vice President of the German Academy for Transplantation Medicine (DAT)
  • Conference President 2024 and member of the Finance Committee of the German Society of Nephrology (DGfN)
  • Working group member of the Standing Commission for Organ Transplantation (StaeKO) of the German Medical Association
  • Funding member of the Bavarian Alliance for Organ Donation at the State Ministry of Health and Care, Bavaria
  • Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Transplant Registry
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the German Organ Transplantation Foundation (DSO), Bavaria region
  • Consultant to the Bavarian Medical Association
  • Member of the Eurotransplant Ethics Committee (ETEC) of the Eurotransplant Foundation
  • Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology (FASN)
  • Deutsche Hochdruckliga e. V. (DHL), German Society for Hypertension and Prevention
  • Clinical Hypertension Specialist of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH)

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