Friedhelm Hildebrandt (born February 11, 1957) is the William E. Harmon Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Nephrology at Boston Children's Hospital.
[1] He was formerly an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the Frederick G.L.
degree from Heidelberg University (Germany), obtained his pediatrics and nephrology subspecialty training at Marburg University Children's Hospital, and was a postdoctoral research fellow in nephrology at Yale School of Medicine (Peter Aronson & Peter Igarashi).
[citation needed] Friedhelm Hildebrandt identified and functionally characterized multiple kidney diseases caused by single-genes (Mendelian) including nephrotic syndrome, cystic renal ciliopathies,[4] and congenital anomalies of the kidney [5] Hildebrandt was elected to the American National Academy of Medicine in 2015,[6] Leopoldina in 2007,[7] and to the Association of American Physicians in 2005.
He demonstrated that in a very high percentage of cases with early-onset chronic kidney disease a single-gene cause may be identified.