Janssen and the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes Announce Award Recipient Who Will Bring Further Understanding of the Role of the Kidney in Diabetes and Research Fellowships Awarded to Four Emerging Researchers

BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (EFSD) today announced that Dr Ivonne Loeffler, University Hospital, Jena, Germany is the recipient of this year’s award for the ‘EFSD/Janssen Programme for the Study of the Role of the Kidney in Diabetes’. Dr Loeffler will be looking into the role of collagen type Vlll in epithelial-mesenchymal transition in diabetic nephropathy, advancing knowledge in a therapy area which affects an estimated 329 million people worldwide.