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Johannes F. E. Mann, M.D., is currently (since 1989) full Professor of Medicine at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen, Germany and (since 2010) Senior International Scholar at Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
His previous assignments include Head, KfH Kidney Center, Munich, Germany; Director of Dept. of Nephrology, Munich General Hospitals; staff member and assistant Professor of Medicine, Dept. of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Germany, and research fellowships in Pharmacology at the Universities of Montreal, Canada and of Heidelberg, Germany.
Professor Mann, a board-certified specialist in Internal Medicine, in Nephrology, in Intensive Care and in Pharmacology, was an officer of the German Societies of Medicine and of Nephrology, of the International Society of Nephrology and is on the editorial board of major journals of nephrology.
His scientific work includes about 300 original paper. His H-Index is 105 in 2025; his citations rank among the top 25 of European nephrologists. Some of his papers, published in Nature, NEJM, Lancet, JAMA and Ann Int Med, were cited more than 3000 times, total citations are close to 75,000 (2026).
The work of Professor Mann concerned initially the physiology of the renin-angiotensin system in experimental animals and later the role of this system for diseases of the kidney, the heart, the arteries, and for diabetes and its damages. From there, his interest moved to the treatment and prevention of progressive renal diseases, including diabetic and hypertensive kidney disease. The latter included planning, steering, adjudication and DSMB memberships in pivotal large outcome trials, namely AIPRI, HOPE, MICRO-HOPE, HOPE-TOO, HOPE-2, HOPE-3, ONTARGET, RENAL-ONTARGET, TRANSCEND, RENAL-TRANSCEND, ASCEND, DIABHYCAR, ORIGIN, LEADER, SONAR, SOUL, TIPS-3, FLOW, DAPA_CKD, DIALYZE, STABILZE, SOLOIST, SCORED, PRECISION, CONFIDENCE, AWAKE, CONCORDE, SYNCHRONIZE, TRIUMPF, FIND-CKD, PERIDOT, CARAT, BaxDuo ARCTIC, -PACIFIC, _PREVENT, AVENULAR, LIVERAGE, FIRST,
