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Paediatric Nephrologist | Royal Children’s Hospital, Clinician Scientist Fellow | Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in MelbourneDr Forbes is a Paediatric Nephrologist at the Royal Children’s Hospital and a Clinician Scientist Fellow at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne. Dr Forbes completed his PhD with Melissa Little’s Kidney Regeneration laboratory at MCRI in 2020. His research examines genetic kidney disease modeling with kidney organoids differentiated from patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells. The group’s current projects include models of autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease and steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome. Dr Forbes is a co-lead of the MCRI Kidney Flagship. He sits on the Clinical and Scientific Working Groups within the KidGen National Kidney Genomic Program. In 2020 Dr Forbes won the inaugural ANZSN/ANZPNA Tonya Kara Paediatric Research Award for his work modeling NOS1AP mutations in kidney organoids, contributing to a novel gene discovery in collaboration with Prof Friedhelm Hildebrandt’s group. Dr Forbes is an Honorary Fellow of the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne. He serves as an Editorial Fellow for the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. He is site PI for sponsored clinical trials through the Melbourne Children’s Trial Centre examining novel therapeutics for primary hyperoxaluria. In 2022 Dr Forbes was appointed to the RACP College Council as the Nephrology representative. Disclosures |