Frank Eitner Email & Phone Number

Wuppertal, NRW, DE

Basel, Baselstadt, CH

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

• Key activities and achievements:
• Successful development and constant evolution of a Kidney Diseases / Precision Nephrology strategy
• Team leader of a group of 20-35 scientists and technicians, people development, talent acquisition (recruitment of more than 20 nephrology scientists over the past 12 years)
• Kidney diseases research portfolio responsibility (ranging from early target discovery through lead generation into lead optimization and IND-enabling studies)
• Buildup of preclinical pharmacology models for a broad range of kidney diseases @ Bayer (in vitro, ex vivo, in vivo)
• Successfully kicked off and steered a multi-project kidney diseases research collaboration between Bayer and Evotec between 2016 and 2021 (current outcome: one early clinical development stage program)

Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

• Medical Doctor, Clinician Scientist, Assistant Professor (2002), Associate Professor (2008), Division of Nephrology and Clinical Immunology, RWTH Aachen University Key activities and achievements:
• Clinic: “Geschäftsführender Oberarzt”; treatment of patients with acute and chronic kidney and immunological diseases; key responsibilities within glomerulonephritis, acute kidney injury, kidney transplantation.
• Research: preclinical research on mechanisms involved in kidney fibrosis and on the role of PDGF-cytokines in kidney disease pathogenesis (DFG grants); translational research on IgA nephropathy pathogenesis (Else.
• Key achievement: successful clinical trial design, funding acquisition, implementation, and execution of STOP IgAN clinical trial (together with Jürgen Floege)
• Teaching: active role in student education (lectures on kidney pathophysiology and diseases, seminars, bed-side teaching)

Seattle, WA, US

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Pathology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, USA
• Research focus: role of chemokines/chemokine receptors in kidney disease pathogenesis; pathogenesis of HIV-associated nephropathy