Prof. Britta George studied Medicine at the University of Muenster in Germany where she completed her training in Internal Medicine and specialized in Nephrology in the Division of Prof. Hermann Pavenstädt. During her early research career, she worked in the laboratory of Prof. Lawrence Holzman first at the University of Michigan, then at the University of Pennsylvania on signaling mechanisms in podocytes at the kidney filter. Upon her return from the US, she transfered to the Neurobiology Lab of Prof. Christian Klämbt to establish a Drosophila model to dissect glomerular disease mechanisms.  

Prof. George continued her clinical work at the University Hospital Muenster in the Department of Nephrology as senior physician and later as executive senior physician. As a clinician scientist, she dissected mechanisms of glomerular disease with focus on signaling at the intercellular junctions of podocytes which constitute the outer part of the kidney filter. Furthermore, her group elucidated mechanisms of monogenetic glomerular disease and pathomechanisms during the transition of acute kidney injury to chronic kidney disease relying on Drosophila, cell culture and mice models.

Currently, Prof. George is the director of the Department of Nephrology at the University Hospital Zurich and the chair of Nephrology at the University of Zurich where she continues her research work on glomerular disease and CKD mechanisms.