Dirk Kuypers is Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Laboratory of Nephrology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is Head of the Department of Nephrology and Director of the Renal Transplantation Program at the University Hospitals Leuven. His clinical and translational research is focused on (personalized) immunosuppressive therapy and renal allograft surveillance using protocol biopsies and (bio)markers of allograft status. Professor Kuypers has published more than 320 papers on nephrology, clinical pharmacology and transplantation (h-index 56) and has authored several book chapters.