Tobias Huber

Biography

Huber studied human medicine in Freiburg, Vienna and Tampa from 1992 until 1999. Following his promotion at the Institute of Physiology in Freiburg, he was medical assistant at the nephrologists unit of the University Hospital Freiburg. From 2003 until 2006 Huber was receiving an Emmy Noether scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Immunology and Pathology der Washington University in St. Louis (USA). After his habilitation in 2007, Huber was certified as a specialist in internal medicine and became group leader of an Emmy Noether research group in Freiburg. In 2012 Huber had elected as Heisenberg Fellow and since 2013 he has been holding a Heisenberg professorship for Medicine and Nephrology at the University Medical Center Freiburg. Since 2015 Huber is Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine IV as well as Chief of the Division of Chronic Kidney Disease at the University Medical Center Freiburg. Furthermore, he currently is Co-Director of the Center of Systems Biology (ZBSA).

Scientific contribution

Huber’s research focus is to understand the complex signaling networks that regulate the development, maintenance and disease progression of the kidney. His translational research program involves model organisms, transgenic mouse models, high-throughput screenings, systems biology and high-resolution imaging approaches to elucidate kidney signaling programs in health and disease. Huber's team identified several molecular mechanisms important for renal development, maintenance, ageing and disease of the kidney.

Awards

Huber has received several international calls to universities as well as national and international prizes for kidney research. Beside a scholarship of the German Kidney Foundation, which he obtained in 2002, the German Association for Nephrology awarded him the Carl-Ludwig-Prize (2004), the Hans-U.-Zollinger-Research Prize (2009) and the Franz-Volhard-Prize (2010). In 2012 he obtained the renowned Young Investigator Award by the American Society of Nephrology and the American Heart Association. For his research on diabetic nephropathy the European Research Council awarded him the Consolidator Grant in 2014. In 2014 he was admitted to the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Since 2015 Huber is Internal Senior Fellow of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.

Memberships in scientific organizations

Huber is member in various scientific organizations. These include the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the The German Society of Internal Medicine, the American Society of Nephrology and the German Society of Nephrology.

Publications