Dewangi joined RRI as a regulatory coordinator in April 2017 to assist with IRB submissions of the clinical studies conducted by RRI. Prior to joining RRI, she received her master’s degree in drug regulatory affairs in December 2016 from Long Island University, Brooklyn. Prior to pursuing her master’s, Dewangi worked for nearly three years in pharmacovigilance in clinical trials and safety operations. She also holds an undergraduate degree in pharmacy. Dewangi is very interested in learning more about current trends in clinical research and drug regulations.

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.

Jochen has worked as a full-time scientist at RRI since his start as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2007. As Senior Manager of Clinical Data Analytics, Jochen conducts epidemiological research in dialysis and oversees many analytical projects. He has first- and co-authored numerous papers and also serves as Associate Editor of the journals Trials and Scientific Reports. Jochen earned his MD from the Medical University Graz, his PhD from Maastricht University, and his MPH with a focus on epidemiology and biostatistics from the City University of New York School of Public Health.

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.