Dirk Kuypers

Dr. Kuypers is Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Laboratory of Nephrology at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is also the Head of the Department of Nephrology and Director of the Renal Transplantation Program at the University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium.

Dr. Kuypers’ clinical and translational research has spanned renal allograft surveillance using protocol biopsies and biomarkers of allograft status to pre-clinical and clinical immunosuppressive therapy development. He founded the Leuven Renal Allograft Biobank, which contributes prospectively collected biological samples and clinical data to translational studies in kidney transplantation. Dr. Kuypers has been involved in more than 70 clinical studies and has published more than 350 papers on nephrology, clinical pharmacology, and transplantation.

Dr. Kuypers served as the President of the Belgian Society of Nephrology, chaired the Kidney-Pancreas Committee of the Belgian Transplantation Society, and was the European Councilor of The Transplantation Society. He is currently the TTS Chair of the TTS-ISN Transplant Center Sister Program, an International Board Member of Eurotransplant, an editorial board member of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Transplantation Reviews and Current Clinical Pharmacology, and associate editor of Transplantation.