Renal Research Novum is built on the unique conditions and opportunities for integrated research (academia- industry - healthcare), translational research (epidemiological, clinical and basic research) and collaborative research (collaborations with researchers from many countries) at Novum, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet.
We focus on research on chronic kidney disease and kidney failure, its complications such as cardiovascular disease, metabolic alterations, malnutrition and inflammation, and its treatment with dialysis, especially peritoneal dialysis.
The group has about 10-15 co-workers including visiting post doc physician scientists, from Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and depend on the close cooperation with nephrologists from the Division of Renal Medicine (of which we are a part) including among others Peter Stenvinkel, Olof Heimbürger, Peter Bárány and Marie Evans.
We provide visiting clinical researchers with research training and continue training, mentoring and collaboration with clinical researchers after their return to home universities for the mutual benefit of involved institutions
We have many ongoing research collaborations with centers in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
We publish more than 25 original papers and 10 review papers or book chapters each year and participate at international meetings with invited lectures and presentations of abstracts.
We organize - together with Peter Stenvinkel and Marie Evans - weekly hybrid renal research seminars where diverse topics in renal medicine are discussed among participants from Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
We organize also other regular meeting activities such as the bi-annual Nordic/Northern PD Council (NPDC) meetings and annual Peritoneal Transport Meetings.
Bengt Lindholm, MD, PhD, nephrologist, Associate Professor and Senior Research Specialist, is head of Renal Research Novum, a section within the Division of Renal Medicine at Karolinska Institutet.
Bengt Lindholm was previously head of the Nephrology department at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 1990-1993, and serves/served as Associate Professor/Adjunct Professor, Renal Medicine, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, since 1989 and as Director Scientific Affairs Renal Care Europe, Baxter Healthcare 1993-2022.
His research focuses on peritoneal dialysis, especially peritoneal dialysis solutions and peritoneal transport of solutes and fluid, and factors influencing clinical outcomes in patients with kidney failure such as malnutrition, inflammation, and cardiovascular disease.
Bengt Lindholm has authored more than 800 publications including 30 book chapters and has been invited as speaker to 400 international and national conferences.
Bengt Lindholms biography at Orcid
Renal Research Novum serves as a center for statistical analyses led by Abdul Rashid Tony Qureshi and houses clinical-epidemiological databases linked to studies performed at Division of Renal Medicine and other institutions.
Renal Research Novum also serves as a center for clinical nutritional studies in patients with chronic kidney disease and kidney failure led by Carla M Avesani