Univ. Prof. Christoph Aufricht is Head of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Gastroenterology at the Vienna General Hospital – Medical University of Vienna. He has received training also at Yale and UCLA. He is member of the European Pediatric Dialysis Working Group, board member of the Austrian Society for Nephrology and past-president of the Austrian Pediatric Nephrology Working Group. He is Principal Investigator in the Horizon 2020 Programme “IMPROVE-PD”, author of more than 130 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals, holder of two patents, scientific founder and CSO of Zytoprotec and recipient of several national and international awards.