Manuel Praga MD, PhD, is Professor of Medicine at the Complutense University and Chief of the Nephrology Division at the Hospital 12 de Octubre in Madrid, Spain. He is member of the Scientific Committee at the “Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12de Octubre”. Dr Praga is a founding member and coordinator of the Group for the Study of Glomerular Diseases of the Spanish Society of Nephrology (GLOSEN). He has authored more than 350 peer-reviewed publications and numerous book chapters and has received many awards, including the “Iñigo Alvarez de Toledo” award to Clinical Investigation in 2000, 2008, 2011 and 2016. Dr. Praga has served on the Directory Board of the Spanish Society of Nephrology, and also sits as an editorial board member and reviewer for international journals. His current research activities focus on primary and secondary glomerular diseases, renal complications of obesity, diabetic nephropathy, progression of chronic kidney disease, interstitial nephritis and renal transplantation.
