Peter Kotanko

Peter Kotanko, MD, is Research Director at the Renal Research Institute (RRI), New York. Prior to joining RRI, from 1997 to 2007 he served as vice chair of a department of internal medicine at an academic teaching hospital in Graz, Austria. Prior to moving to Graz in 1989, he worked from 1982 to 1989 in the Department of Physiology and the University Clinic of Internal Medicine in Innsbruck, Austria. From 1995 to 1996 he trained in nephrology at the Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom. He is Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Nephrology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and holds a teaching appointment at the Medical University of Innsbruck. He has authored and co-authored over 350 publications and book chapters, and he holds multiple patents in the field of kidney replacement therapy. He is an awardee of the 2019 KidneyX prize for innovations in dialysis and the 2021 KidneyX COVID-19 Kidney Care Challenge. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology.