Franciszek Kokot (24 November 1929 – 24 January 2021)[1] was a Polish nephrologist and endocrinologist.
[2] Kokot was a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences,[3] having previously served as its rector.
[4] Kokot was born in Rosenberg O.S., Germany (today Olesno in Poland).
[2] He was one of the first individuals to study abnormalities of volume regulating hormones and of volume status in acute kidney injury, and one of the first to document abnormalities in humans with renal ischemia, particularly renal artery stenosis.
He was also a pioneer in studying in great detail the reversal of hormonal abnormalities of patients with endstage kidney disease by renal transplantation.