Prof. Dr. med. Klemens Budde is senior physician in the Medical Clinic with focus on nephrology and internal intensive care medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin. In 2006 he was appointed full professor for “Pharmacodynamics of Immunosuppression after Kidney Transplantation”. After graduating in human medicine at the University of Tübingen and a 2-year research stay at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut/USA, Prof. Budde started his clinical training at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg and completed it at the Charité. He is a specialist in internal medicine and nephrology and has the additional qualification of Hypertensiologist DHL. His scientific focus is on the various clinical aspects of transplantation medicine. Prof. Budde is consortium leader of the “MACSS” project, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics. Since 2018, he has been head of the Health Working Group of the Learning Systems Platform, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.