Y.K.O. Teng

Dr. Y.K.O. (Onno) Teng, M.D., Ph.D., is a Nephrology clinician-scientist at the department of Internal Medicine of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). He is head of the Nephrology outpatient clinic and coordinator of the Leiden outpatient clinic for Lupus, Vasculitis and Complement-mediated Systemic diseases (LuVaCs) which accommodates top-referral, multidisciplinary, tertiary care on a regional and national level. He also leads and coordinates a clinical, multidisciplinary pathway aimed at counselling and guiding a pregnancy wish of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or antiphosholipid syndrome.

Dr. Teng conducts a translational research program in the area of autoimmune glomerulonephritis related to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV). His major goals are to find new therapeutic interventions and innovative approaches for immunological monitoring (‘immunomonitoring’) for patients with SLE and AAV.