About the Authors

David J. Jörg

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

david.joerg@fmc-ag.com

Affiliation Computational Medicine Group, Global Medical Office, Fresenius Medical Care Germany, Bad Homburg, Germany

Doris H. Fuertinger

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Computational Medicine Group, Global Medical Office, Fresenius Medical Care Germany, Bad Homburg, Germany

Peter Kotanko

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Renal Research Institute, New York, New York, United States of America, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: DJJ and DHF are employees of Fresenius Medical Care Germany. PK is an employee of the Renal Research Institute, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresenius Medical Care. PK receives author royalties from HSTalks and holds stock in Fresenius Medical Care. PK is on the Editorial Board of Blood Purification, Kidney and Blood Pressure Research, and Frontiers in Nephrology. PK is inventor on multiple patents in the field of kidney medicine.