Xia received her training at Guangxi Medical University in China and University of Massachusetts Lowell prior to joining in RRI. Xia brings a combined skill set of medicine and biomedical engineering to RRI, from both academia and industry. In her role as a research manager, Xia is managing the clinical research and laboratory team at RRI. Her research interests include development of medical devices, IVD, and therapeutic methods to improve outcomes of kidney disease patients.

Ohnmar Thwin was born in Yangon, Burma. She received her medical degree from the Institute of Medicine, Yangon, Burma, and her MPH degree from Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. Ohnmar served as a senior health training officer for the nternational Rescue Committee providing chronic disease prevention education, as well as empowering and helping to rebuild the lives of refugees affected by violent conflict and disasters. 

Laura obtained her MD degree from the Central University in Quito, Ecuador, and a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University, New York. She was a research fellow for Beth Israel Medical Center in partnership with RRI and was the Research Associate Lab Director at RRI for several years. Laura is an accomplished scientist with ample experience in clinical research for more than 16 years and has authored and co-authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Prior to coming to New York, Stephan worked in the Nephrology Department at the University Hospital Homburg, Germany. He joined RRI in 2005. Stephan brings more than one and a half decades of research experience to the RRI team, covering laboratory research, clinical research, epidemiology research, and mathematical modeling. He has written and published an extensive number of scholarly articles in leading national and international peer-reviewed scientific journals and published several book chapters.

Peter Kotanko, MD, is Research Director at the Renal Research Institute (RRI), New York. Prior to 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. Prior to 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.

Fansan was a lecturer in Dept of Bioengineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China from 1992-1996. He holds master’s degrees in biomedical engineering from HUST and in Chemical engineering from Columbia University, New York. He received the PhD degree from University of Maastricht, Netherlands. His current research interests are application of bioimpedance, video image processing, body fluid dynamics and body composition and modeling of electrical properties in tissue. He is author of over 210 publications including peer-reviewed papers (67), chapter of books (5) and international conference proceedings (151). He is an inventor of 17 U.S. patents.