Jan Czogalla (MD) is a post-doctoral researcher and transplant nephrology fellow at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf | UKE. He studied medicine in Muenster, Germany. His doctoral research at the University of Muenster and the University of San Diego (UCSD) was focused on kidney physiology and acute kidney injury. His post-doctoral research at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, was centered around renal potassium handling. Since 2019, his work at UKE has been committed to the advancement of kidney preservation before transplantation. Recently, he developed a rat survival model of normothermic machine perfusion and subsequent transplantation. His main aim is the improvement of machine perfusion as a platform for function testing and delivering ex-vivo treatment, thus increasing the number of successful kidney transplantations.