Tobias Hermle

Dr. med.
Principal Investigator

Department of Medicine, Renal Division
Medical Center – University of Freiburg
Hugstetter Str. 55
79106 Freiburg

Current Position

Group Leader and Attending Physician, Renal Division

Academic Education

2000 - 2007 Medicine at University of Tübingen / University of Mainz / Yale University, CT, USA / University College London, UK (M.D.)
1999 - 2000 Law at University of Tübingen

Advanced Qualifications

2021 Habilitation in Nephrology, University of Freiburg
2007 Dissertation (Dr. med.), University of Tübingen

Postgraduate Positions

2019 - present Attending Physician (Funktionsoberarzt), Department of Medicine, Renal Division, Medical Center - University of Freiburg
2017 - present Independent group Leader, Department of Medicine, Renal Division, Medical Center - University of Freiburg
2015 - 2017 Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA
2009 - 2014 Research Fellow and Clinical Fellow, Renal Division, Medical Center - University of Freiburg
2007 - 2009 Resident, Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Erlangen

Link to all publications of Tobias Hermle: PubMed

Publications on CRC 1453 funding

Mathes N, Comas M, Bleul R, Everaert K, Hermle T, Wiekhorst F, Knittel P, Sperling RA, Vidal X. Nitrogen-vacancy center magnetic imaging of Fe3O4 nanoparticles inside the gastrointestinal tract of Drosophila melanogaster. Nanoscale Adv (2023). Hermle T, Simons M. ER stress and slit diaphragms: is there a connection? Kidney Int (2023). Milosavljevic J, Lempicki C, Lang K, Heinkele H, Kampf L, …, Walz G, Pollak M, Hermle T. Nephrotic Syndrome Gene TBC1D8B is Required for Endosomal Maturation and Nephrin Endocytosis in Drosophila. J Am Soc Nephrol (2022). Lang K, Milosavljevic J, Heinkele H, Chen M, Gerstner L, …, Walz G, Köttgen M, Spracklen A, Poulton J, Hermle T. Selective endocytosis controls slit diaphragm maintenance and dynamics in Drosophila nephrocytes. Elife (2022). Spitz D, Comas M, Gerstner L, Kayser S, Helmstädter M, Walz G, Hermle T. mTOR-Dependent Autophagy Regulates Slit Diaphragm Density in Podocyte-like Drosophila Nephrocytes. Cells (2022). Gerstner L, Chen M, Kampf LL, Milosavljevic J, Lang K, …, Helmstädter M, Walz G, Hermle T. Inhibition of endoplasmic reticulum stress signaling rescues cytotoxicity of human apolipoprotein-L1 risk variants in Drosophila. Kidney Int (2022).