Pierre-Louis Tharaux

Pierre-Louis Tharaux, M.D., Ph.D., is a nephrologist, Inserm Research Professor, and Team leader at the Paris Cardiovascular research Center – PARCC and Georges Pompidou European hospital, Paris, France. His research analyzes experimental vascular and renal pathophysiology with translation to clinical studies. His goal is to promote tolerance of the kidney and the microcirculation to immune injury (vasculitides, FSGS, sickle cell disease) and metabolic damage (diabetes, hypertension). He brought several significant advances in kidney pathophysiology that led to European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator and Proof of Concept Grants and were recognized by the Eloi Collery Prize of the French National Academy of Medicine in 2013, the French Kidney Foundation Grand Prize in 2019, and the Inserm Research Prize in 2021.