Prof. Johannes Loffing received his MD from the University of Münster, Germany. After clinical training in Urology, he worked as postdoc at the Institute of Anatomy in Zurich and at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, USA. In 2003, he obtained a Cloetta research fellowship and headed an independent research group at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology of the University of Lausanne. After being an associate professor at the University of Fribourg, he obtained a chair in Anatomy at the University of Zurich in 2007. The general goal of his research is to understand how the kidneys maintain ion balance and how deranged underlying mechanism lead to human diseases including arterial hypertension. Prof. Loffing was co-director and director of the NCCR Kidney.CH from 2010 to 2022. He is the current president of the steering board of the CAS/DAS in “Translational Nephrology”.