Peter Boor RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany

Professor Peter Boor received his medical and scientific training at the Medical Schools of Bratislava in Slovakia and Aachen Germany. Peter Boor is a senior consultant pathologist, RWTH Lecturer, Heisenberg Professor and chair of Translational Nephropathology, Electron Microscopy Facility and Digital Pathology at the University Clinic Aachen. He is a member of several national and international societies of pathology, renal pathology and nephrology and he received several prestigious awards from these societies and prizes for excellent teaching of medical students. His group, the LaBooratory of Nephropathology, focuses on diagnostic biomarkers with particular focus on imaging, digital pathology and AI, as well as in vivo animal modeling, and understanding of pathological processes in CKD, fibrosis and vasculature. He founded and is leading the German COVID-19 Autopsy Registry and Research Network. His scientific work encompasses more than 270 original papers, reviews and editorials, and several book chapters.