Frankfurt / Main (dpa / lhe) - There is a new center for kidney diseases in Frankfurt. The Frankfurt University Hospital has upgraded the department to an independent clinic. The new center for nephrological research is headed by Prof. Thimoteus Speer, who comes from the Saarland University Hospital and will take up his duties on October 1st. The Else Kröner-Fresenius-Foundation is supporting the start-up with ten million euros over a period of ten years.
With the new center, the university hospital will become "regionally and nationally a highly visible capacity for chronic kidney diseases," said the medical director, Prof. Jürgen Graf, on Thursday in Frankfurt. Patients would benefit from the close cooperation with the research center "in the form of improved and new therapies".
The kidney center is the third facility of this kind in Germany: in 2005, the foundation founded a center for nutritional medicine with the Technical University of Munich, followed in 2019 by a center for digital health with the Technical University of Dresden, as Prof. Michael Madeja, Chairman of the Else Kröner-Fresenius- foundation, explained. With an annual funding volume of more than 60 million euros, it claims to be the largest medical foundation in Germany.
