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Biography:
Fiona Karet has been Professor of Nephrology at the University of Cambridge since 2005, and Honorary Consultant in Renal Medicine at Addenbrooke’s Hospital since 2001. She trained in London, Cambridge and at Yale.
She has for many years combined clinical leadership of the Cambridge Renal Genetic and Tubular Disorders Service with laboratory, clinical research and teaching that began with gene discovery in tubulopathies and now involves both work on electrolyte disorders and on urinary extracellular vesicles. She has consistently championed patients with rare kidney disorders. She co-chairs the ClinGen Renal Tubulopathies group.
She is also active in career development, working culture improvement, and governance at the University of Cambridge. She is an experienced mentor, and has delivered mentoring training both locally and for the Academy of Medical Sciences, of which she was elected a Fellow in 2004.
As a result of her lab’s research programme, she is a Founding Director of Kalium Health Ltd, a University spinout. Lastly, she is Vice-Master of Darwin College Cambridge.