Renal Medicine at Novum is built on the unique conditions and opportunities for integrated (academia- industry - healthcare), translational (clinical research - basic research) and collaborative (collaborations with researchers all over the world) research at Novum, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet.
We focus on research in renal medicine, chronic kidney disease and kidney failure, its complications such as cardiovascular disease, metabolic alterations, malnutrition and inflammation, and its treatment including dialysis therapies, especially peritoneal dialysis.
The group has about 10-15 co-workers, most of them post doc guest scientists from other countries. We publish each year about 20 original papers and 10 review papers or book chapters and participates at international meetings with invited lectures and presentations of abstracts.
Bengt Lindholm, MD, PhD, nephrologist, Associate Professor and Senior Research Specialist, is head of the section of Renal Medicine at Novum (Baxter Novum) since its birth in 1995.
He was previously senior consultant and head of the Nephrology Department, Huddinge Hospital 1990–1992,
Adjunct Professor Renal Medicine at CLINTEC 2007-2019, and
Director Scientific Affairs Europe Baxter Healthcare´s Renal Division 1992 – 2022.