Burkhard Tönshoff, MD, PhD, is Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrology at the University Children’s Hospital Heidelberg, Germany; Vice Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics I; Medical Director of the Pediatric Kidney Transplantation Program. His current research focuses on various aspects of kidney transplantation including studies of the pharmacokinetics, efficacy and safety of novel immunosuppressive drugs in pediatric kidney transplant recipients, optimization of immunosuppressive therapy through therapeutic drug monitoring and immunomonitoring, prevention of infectious and other complications after kidney transplantation, biomarker-guided minimization of immunosuppressive therapy, the impact of donor-specific HLA and non-HLA antibodies on graft histology and function, and the role of the gut microbiome in immunosuppressive drug metabolism and transplant outcome. In the year 2009 he founded the Cooperative European Paediatric Renal Transplant Initiative (CERTAIN; www.certain-registry.eu) as a multicenter research network and platform based on a novel, web-based registry; CERTAIN is the official transplant registry of the European Society for Paediatric Nephrology (ESPN). Awards and nominations: Member of the Eurotransplant Kidney Advisory Committee. Scientific Steering Committee of the Transplant Cohort of the German Center for Infectious Diseases. Chairman of the Kidney Transplant Working Group of the European Society for Paediatric Nephrology (ESPN) and of the German Society for Paediatric Nephrology (GPN). Council member of the International Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA); 2015 - 2017 President of IPTA. Since 2018 Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Pediatric Transplantation”, the official journal of IPTA.