Carsten Wagner#
| Membership Number: | 6241 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.physiol.uzh.ch |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9874-8898 |
Present and Previous Positions
- February 2009 - present Full Professor, University of Zurich, Institute of Physiology, Switzerland
- August 2006 - January 2009 Assistant professor, University of Zurich (Center for Integrative Human Physiology, Zürich, Switzerland)
- 2002 - 2006 Independent Junior Group leader, University of Zurich, Institute of Physiology
- 2001 Postdoctoral researcher, University of Zurich, Institute of Physiology, with F. Verrey and H. Murer
- November 2001-February 2002, short research visit, Australian National University at Canberra, Institute of Biochemistry, with S. Bröer
- October 1999 - October 2001, Yale University
- Postdoctoral researcher, Feoder-Lynen fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation (Germany), Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, New Haven, United States, with JP Geibel and G Giebisch
- May 1998 - September 1999 Postdoctoral research fellow with F. Lang University of Tübingen (Germany), Institute of Physiology, stipend by the Interdisciplinary Clinical Research Center
Fields of Scholarship
- Diseases of renal acid-base handling
- Physiology
- Phosphate homeostasis, renal and intestinal phosphate transport, regulation, inherited and acquired disorders of phosphate balance
- Pathophysiology of nephrolithiasis (kidney stones)
- Regulation of acid-base homeostasis, sensing of pH
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Adolf Fick Prize by the German Physiological Society, which is considered the most prestigious physiology prize in the German-speaking world
- 2019 Visiting Professor, Mayo Clinics, Rochester, MI, USA, Department of Nephrolog
- 2007 Franz Volhard Prize of the German Society for Nephrology
- 2005 Swiss Pfizer Research Prize in Nephrology/Urology
- 2004 Visiting Professor, 2nd University Naples/Italy, Department of Nephrology
- 1999 - 2001 Feodor Lynen stipend, Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation/Germany
- 1998 - 1999 Stipend of the IZKF (Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research) at the University of Tübingen
- 1993 - 1994 Erasmus stipend at the University of Edinburgh
- 1993 - 1997 Stipend of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
