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EARLY CAREER SUPPORT: RENPRO Training Courses

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RENPRO offers a tailored training program focusing on renal research for early career researchers of the TRR 374.

RENPRO training courses are compulsory for PhD students within projects of the TRR and open for interested medical doctoral students, master students, MD fellowship students, postodcs and physician scientists.

During their doctoral studies, PhD students must complete the Basic Nephrology Course once, as well as four Advanced Nephrology Training Courses and four Methods Courses and at least twice a Summer School.

The RENPRO training modules focus on kidney-specific content that broaden and deepen students? qualification. They cover a broad spectrum from structural research to clinical nephrology. The courses are led by experienced TRR project leaders and their experienced coworkers. The interdisciplinary approach is intended to bridge the gap between basic research in the laboratory and clinical research. It promotes cooperation and provides young scientists with an efficient orientation in the broad field of kidney research.
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RENPRO Training Courses 2025 Place: Date:

Registration:
(The links below are for early career researchers in TRR 374 and associated projects only. When registering, the password that TRR members have received by email must be entered.)*

Advanced Nephrology Training Course:
Polycystic Kidney Diseases, Hypoxia and Epigenetics
Erlangen February 28, 2025

REGISTRATION
(by February 02, 2025)

Method Course, 4 days:
Electron microscopy

Regensburg March 10-13, 2025 REGISTRATION
(by February 02, 2025)
Basic Nephrology Course 2025 Regensburg April 8-10, 2025 REGISTRATION
(by March 02, 2025)
Method Course, 2 days:
Data evaluation – advanced course: regression methods
Regensburg May 7-8, 2025 REGISTRATION
(by March 30, 2025)

RENPRO Summer School 2025
organized by young scientists of TRR 374

Regensburg May 15-16, 2025 REGISTRATION
(extended until March 10, 2025)

Advanced Nephrology Training Course:
AKI and Electrolyte Imbalances

Erlangen July 1, 2025

REGISTRATION
(by May 1, 2025)

Method Course, 2 days:
RNAscope
Regensburg

October 8-9,2025

REGISTRATION is not yet open

Advanced Nephrology Training Course: NN

Erlangen autumn / winter 2025 REGISTRATION is not yet open

* Non-TRR members (e.g. interested doctoral students from the graduate schools) can register by sending an informal e-mail to michaela.kritzenberger@ur.de;
places will be allocated and participants informed shortly after the registration deadline has expired.

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Accreditation:
RENPRO training courses are certified by the graduate schools (RIGel, BIOMEDICS, life@FAU) in which the PhD students are enrolled, so course work performed in the kidney-specific RENPRO modules is credited.

A performance record is kept for TRR doctoral students. You can download a summary of the program and a checklist to keep track of the courses you have completed.

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Modules:


Basic nephrology course

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Next Basic Nephrology Course Place: Date:
Basic Nephrology Course 2025 Regensburg April 8-10, 2025 REGISTRATION
(by March 02, 2025)
  • Time and place: 3 days at the Universit?t Regensburg
  • Must be attended by PhD students within projects of the TRR at least once
  • CPs (as accepted by RIGel): 0.9
  • Recommended for the first year of the PhD work

Contents:
Lectures and seminars on renal physiology, renal anatomy, and basic knowledge of renal disease are given by principal investigators of the TRR and their experienced coworkers.


Day 1 Microscopic and macroscopic anatomy of the kidney Lectures, anatomical demonstration and practical histology course
Day 2
and
Day 3

Renal physiology and pathophysiology,
Electrolyte and water balance,
Acid-base homeostasis,
Kidney interstititum,
Regulation of kidney function and blood pressure

Lectures and student practical course in renal physiology as in curriculum for medical students
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Advanced nephrology training courses

Advanced Nephrology Training Courses 2025
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Place: Date:
Advanced Nephrology Training Course:
Polycystic Kidney Diseases, Hypoxia and Epigenetics
Erlangen February 28, 2025

REGISTRATION
(by February 02, 2025)

Advanced Nephrology Training Course:
AKI and Electrolyte Imbalances

Erlangen July 1, 2025

REGISTRATION
(by May 01, 2025)

Advanced Nephrology Training Course: NN

Erlangen autumn / winter 2025 REGISTRATION is not yet open

Time and place: 1 day at the Universit?t Regensburg, Universit?tsklinikum Regensburg or at the FAU / Universit?tsklinikum Erlangen, respectively

  • PhD students must attend at least 4 courses during the PhD period
  • CPs (as accepted by RIGel): 0.3 each
  • Three courses per year, covering one of the 7 modules listed below, respectively
Courses:
1 Genetic kidney diseases: basic aspects and clinics
Cystic kidney diseases
2 Innate and adaptive Immunity
Renal transplantation: Immunology and clinics
3 Glomerulonephritis and Tubulointerstitial kidney diseases
4 Diabetic nephropathy and Cardio renal syndrome
5 Acute kidney injury and Rare kidney diseases in children
6 The complement system: role in kidney damage
Nephropathology: Methods and selected examples
7 Hypoxia and epigenetics
Genome-wide association studies

Nephrology methods courses

Nephrology Method Courses 2025

Place: Date:

Method Course, 4 days:
Electron microscopy

Regensburg March 10-13, 2025 REGISTRATION
(by February 02, 2025)
Method Course, 2 days:
Data evaluation – advanced course: regression methods
Regensburg May 7-8, 2025 REGISTRATION
(by March 30, 2025)
Method Course, 2 days:
RNAscope
Regensburg

October 8-9,2025

REGISTRATION is not yet open
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Time and place: 1-2 days at the Universit?t Regensburg, Universit?tsklinikum Regensburg or at the FAU / Universit?tsklinikum Erlangen, respectively

  • PhD students must attend 3-4 courses (1.2 CPS at least) during the PhD period
  • CPs (as accepted by RIGel): 0.3 each
  • Three courses per year, covering one to two of the methods listed below, respectively. The selection of topics will be based on the students' needs and interests, which will be determined by survey (at the RENPRO workshop or at the internal retreat)
Courses:
1 Electrophysiology
2 Determination of Ca2+ and pH
3 RNA scope technology
4 Structural biology
5 Advanced data analysis
6 Machine learning and KI