Tobias B. Huber is Chair of the Center of Internal Medicine and Director of the III. Department of Medicine (Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology, and Transplantation) at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). Together with his team, he is worldwide recognized for discovering signaling pathways relevant to kidney development, filtration, maintenance, and disease. He received numerous national and international recognitions including the Donald W. Seldin Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Nephrology and is elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the National Academy of Sciences – Leopoldina-.