Prof Dr Sydney Tang is currently Chair of Renal Medicine and Yu Professor in Nephrology at The University of Hong Kong. He graduated from HKU with MBBS and subsequently MD and PhD degrees. He trained in Nephrology at Queen Mary Hospital (Hong Kong) and in basic sciences at King’s College London (UK) and the University of Washington (USA). His research interests include the pathogenetic mechanisms of diabetic and proteinuric kidney disease, and the treatment of IgA nephropathy. He has published over 330 SCI articles and written over 30 book chapters including one on diabetic kidney disease in Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), Editorial Board member of Kidney International (KI), CJASN, American Journal of Nephrology and Kidney Diseases, and the previous Editor-in-Chief of Nephrology (Carlton). He has served the Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology as President, CME Program Committee of the ISN as Chairman and KDIGO as an Executive Member. Locally, he serves the Hong Kong College of Physicians as Council Member and Chairman of the Specialty Board in Nephrology and is a past chairman of the Hong Kong Society of Nephrology.