Olivier Devuyst
editOlivier Devuyst (born November 9, 1964 in Namur) is a Belgian nephrologist who conducts simultaneously research at the Department of Physiology of the University of Zurich, Switzerland and at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Education
editOlivier Devuyst, M.D., Ph.D., graduated in 1989 from UCLouvain Medical School (Brussels, Belgium) and specialized in Internal Medicine and Nephrology from 1989 to 1994 (at the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc / Saint-Luc Hospital, Belgium).
He worked as a Research Fellow at the UCLouvain Medical School (1985-1994), trained at the Department of Biology at the Technion Institute (Haifa, Israel, 1990-1991), and the Johns Hopkins Medical School (Baltimore, 1994-1996). From 1997 to 2002, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the UCLouvain Medical School. Concomitantly, from 1998 to 2002, he worked as an Invited Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Medical School.
Professional career
editFrom 2002 to 2007, he worked as an Associate Professor at the UCLouvain Medical School to finally be appointed Full Professor at the UCLouvain Medical School in 2007. Then, in 2010, in parallel with its UCLouvain laboratory, he opened his lab in Zurich, working on the Mechanisms of inherited kidney disorders, and took the opportunity to be appointed Full Professor at the Department of Physiology (Zurich, Switzerland). There, he co-chairs the University priority program on rare diseases, and has a joint appointment in nephrology at UCLouvain Medical School.
Research and publications
editBooks
editScientific articles
editAwards and prizes
editSelected bibliography
editExternal links
editMechanisms of Inherited kidney disorders, (Department of Physiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Nephrology Department at UCLouvain in Belgium
Institut des Maladies rares, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc in Belgium