Vicente Torres Mayo ClinicUnited States

Vicente Torres received MD and Doctoral degrees from the University of Barcelona and moved to the Mayo Clinic in 1972 for research and clinical training. He joined the faculty in 1979 and became Professor of Medicine in 1991 and Robert M. and Billie J. Pirnie Professor of Kidney Research in 2016. He has served as Chair of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Director of the Kidney Disease Research Training NIH Grant, on the Scientific Advisory Board of the PKD Foundation, and NIH study sections and committees. He is Associate Director of the Mayo Translational PKD Center, a principal investigator for the NIH funded CRISP and HALT PKD trial consortia, and for Industry funded clinical trials of vasopressin V2 receptor antagonists. He received the 2007 Lillian Jean Kaplan Award for Advancement in the Understanding of PKD and the 2019 John P. Peters Award of the American Society of Nephrology.