Peter J. Ratcliffe, M.D. is a physician scientist who trained as a nephrologist, before founding the hypoxia biology laboratory at Oxford. His laboratory elucidated mechanisms by which human and animal cells sense oxygen levels and transduce these signals to direct adaptive changes in gene expression.
Dr Ratcliffe received his degrees from the University of Cambridge and medical training at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London and Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a recipient of several international awards for his laboratory’s work on oxygen sensing, including the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, the Canada Gairdner International Award and the Lasker Award for Basic Biomedical Research. He was knighted for his services to medicine in 2014, and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2019.
He holds appointments as Director of Clinical Research at the Francis Crick Institute, London, Director of the Target Discovery Institute at the University of Oxford and is a Distinguished Scholar of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research.

Kai-Uwe Eckardt is currently appointed Full Professor and chair at the Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care at the Charité in Berlin, Germany. He attained an MD from the University of Münster in 1985 and obtained residency and fellowship training in pathology, physiology, internal medicine and nephrology at the Universities of Münster, Hannover, Zürich, Oxford and the Charité in Berlin.
He was chairman of a collaborative research center on kidney injury at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, and is currently vice-chair of the collaborative research center "Renoprotection" at the Charité in Berlin, Germany. He is also principal investigator of the German Chronic Kidney Disease (GCKD) study, a national CKD cohort study in Germany. He has served on the editorial boards of KI, JASN, NDT, J Mol Med and the BMJ. Prof. Eckardt is a past council member of the European Renal Association and the International Society of Nephrology. He was also a founding executive committee member and co-chair of Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO). Prof. Eckardt’s major scientific interests are the molecular mechanisms and the physiological / pathophysiological relevance of oxygen sensing and the development of acute and chronic renal injury.

Is a certified yoga teacher specialized in healthy movement and pain management. Joëlle draws from her own experience of living with fibromyalgia for over two decades to adapt her classes to best suit her students’ capabilities. She believes that yoga is for everyone and can help nearly anyone feel better, no matter their situation.

Is a qualified physiotherapist and a certified pilates instructor. Kim has gathered a wealth of experience in helping people with injuries to release chronic pain thanks to her work in a physiotherapy clinic and by providing emergency medical care for the British Athletics Team. Having researched CKD, she is thrilled to use her great expertise to help patients suffering from this disease.