Dr. Lemuel Rivera Fuentes joined the Renal Research Institute in 2018 as a research scientist, and in 2021 became the supervisor of clinical research. His research interests include the design and
execution of pilot studies for innovative therapies to manage volume and anemia in dialysis patients. Dr. Fuentes obtained his medical degree from Universidad La Salle in Mexico City, where he was awarded the Excellency in Medical Academic Achievement Grant by the Pfizer Scientific Institute. He completed his internal medicine residency at ABC Medical Center and a nephrology fellowship program at Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition in Mexico City. He went on to pursue a high specialization postgraduate course in transplant nephrology, sponsored by the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is board-certified by the Mexican Council of Internal Medicine and the Mexican
Board of Nephrology.
Dr. Peter Kotanko is the Research Director at the Renal Research Institute (RRI), New York. Before
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. Before 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 an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Nephrology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and holds a teaching appointment (Dozentur) at the Medical University of Innsbruck. He has authored and co-authored over 400 publications and book chapters, and he is an inventor on 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.
