Carsten Wagner#


Carsten Wagner
Membership Number:6241
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE
Affiliated section(s):CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE
Elected:2022
Main Country of Residence:SWITZERLAND
Homepage(s):http://www.physiol.uzh.ch
ORCID:0000-0002-9874-8898




Present and Previous Positions
  • February 2009 - present Full Professor, University of Zurich, Institute of Physiology, Switzerland
  • August 2006 - January 2009 Assistant professor, University of Zurich (Center for Integrative Human Physiology, Zürich, Switzerland)
  • 2002 - 2006 Independent Junior Group leader, University of Zurich, Institute of Physiology
  • 2001 Postdoctoral researcher, University of Zurich, Institute of Physiology, with F. Verrey and H. Murer
  • November 2001-February 2002, short research visit, Australian National University at Canberra, Institute of Biochemistry, with S. Bröer
  • October 1999 - October 2001, Yale University
  • Postdoctoral researcher, Feoder-Lynen fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation (Germany), Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, New Haven, United States, with JP Geibel and G Giebisch
  • May 1998 - September 1999 Postdoctoral research fellow with F. Lang University of Tübingen (Germany), Institute of Physiology, stipend by the Interdisciplinary Clinical Research Center

Fields of Scholarship
  • Diseases of renal acid-base handling
  • Physiology
  • Phosphate homeostasis, renal and intestinal phosphate transport, regulation, inherited and acquired disorders of phosphate balance
  • Pathophysiology of nephrolithiasis (kidney stones)
  • Regulation of acid-base homeostasis, sensing of pH

Honours and Awards
  • 2019 Adolf Fick Prize by the German Physiological Society, which is considered the most prestigious physiology prize in the German-speaking world
  • 2019 Visiting Professor, Mayo Clinics, Rochester, MI, USA, Department of Nephrolog
  • 2007 Franz Volhard Prize of the German Society for Nephrology
  • 2005 Swiss Pfizer Research Prize in Nephrology/Urology
  • 2004 Visiting Professor, 2nd University Naples/Italy, Department of Nephrology
  • 1999 - 2001 Feodor Lynen stipend, Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation/Germany
  • 1998 - 1999 Stipend of the IZKF (Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research) at the University of Tübingen
  • 1993 - 1994 Erasmus stipend at the University of Edinburgh
  • 1993 - 1997 Stipend of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)

Imprint Privacy policy « This page (revision-6) was last changed on Wednesday, 24. August 2022, 20:16 by Kaiser Dana
  • operated by