Professor of Pediatrics and Interdisciplinary Transplantation
Consultant Pediatric Nephrologist,
Dean for Academic Career Development
Hannover Medical School, Germany
Anette Melk, MD PhD is Professor of Pediatrics and Interdisciplinary Transplantation and serves Hannover Medical School as Dean for Academic Career Development. She is the current chair of Pillar 2 of Women in Transplantation.
Dr. Melk’s clinical research aims to decipher factors leading to cardiovascular and renal comorbidity in children with chronic kidney disease and transplantation. She has demonstrated that girls are particularly vulnerable to certain risk factors and experience more severe cardiovascular damage. She showed that female patients have lesser waitlist access and that younger female patients experience greater rates of graft loss and death.
She has organized two international symposia on the topic of sex and gender in transplantation medicine. For her advocacy and work on the topic Dr. Melk received the Future Award of the German Society of Nephrology in 2023.