Andrew John Mallett, MBBS, MMed, PhD, CF, AFRACMA, FASN, FISN, FRCP, FRACP, James Cook University, Australia
Dr Andrew John Mallett is a Professor of Medicine at James Cook University. He is an Adult Nephrologist with a special interest in genetic kidney disease and nephrogenetics.
Professor Mallett is a former Churchill Fellow, and he is currently a Queensland Health Advancing Clinical Research Fellow with a strongly emerging clinical and research profile in this field.
Professor Mallett is also National Director of the KidGen Collaborative, and, Director of Clinical Research and Nephrologist (Townsville University Hospital). He is committed to improving the understanding of genetic kidney disease as well as the clinical care and outcomes of patients and families affected by it.
Yun Miao, MD, PhD, Southern Medical University, China
Dr Yun Miao is a Professor and Associate Chief of the Department of Transplantation at Nanfang Hospital at the Southern Medical University.
Dr Miao is a clinician engaged in kidney transplantation surgery, donor organ refinement surgery, diagnosis and treatment of perioperative complications of transplant surgery, and long-term follow-up care after transplantation.
She is interested in the BK Polyomavirus infections, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, and the immunological mechanisms of acute and chronic rejection after kidney transplantation.
John Andrew Sayer, MBChB, PhD, Newcastle University, UK
Professor John Sayer is a Professor of Renal Medicine at Newcastle University and Consultant Nephrologist at the Freeman Hospital’s Renal Services Centre. He has a particular interest in inherited kidney diseases and renal stone disease.
Professor Sayer’s clinical interests include a wide range of disorders including cystic kidney disease, Fabry disease, Alport syndrome, tubulopathies, and kidney stone disorders. He runs a regional renal genetics clinic and a family renal genetics clinic.
At a national level, Professor Sayer leads several Renal Rare Diseases Working Groups including ARPKD, Nephronophthisis, Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease, Fabry Disease, Mitochondrial Disease, Tubulopathies, Cystinuria, and Cystinosis.
Within Newcastle University, Professor Sayer’s laboratory studies focus on renal genetics, cystic kidney disease, renal ciliopathies, and renal stone formation. His work utilizes genetic techniques to investigate these conditions and find new therapies.
