Manchester, United Kingdom
Philip Kalra, Professor of Nephrology at the University of Manchester, graduated from Cambridge University and St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School. He is Director of Research and Innovation in the Northern Care Alliance, the trust encompassing Salford Royal where he has been consultant nephrologist since 1995. He was Academic Vice President of the UK Renal Association 2016-19, Chair of the UK Kidney Research Consortium during this time and was Chair of the NIHR CRN Renal Disorders group from 2010 until 2018. He is the lead of the Donal O’Donoghue Renal Research Centre, the local research centre named in honour of our late esteemed colleague. He has major research interests in CKD progression, intravenous iron in CKD, renovascular disease and renal epidemiology and he has been involved in the development of several large UK clinical trials in nephrology and cardiology, including the ASTRAL, PIVOTAL and IRONMAN trials and the NURTuRE cohort. He has played a role in improving collaboration between Nephrology and Cardiology in both scientific and educational endeavours.