Markus Bitzer
Clinical Professor
Nephrology
Medicine
Education
MS, Chemistry, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany
MD, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany
01/1995-05/1995 Externship, Visiting Medical Student – Medicine Sub-internship, Critical Care, Hematology- Oncology, Duke University
12/1995-05/1997 Internship, Internal Medicine, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany
06/1997-08/1998 Residency, Internal Medicine, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany
10/1998-06/2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nephrology & Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
07/2002-06/2003 Internship, Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
07/2003-06/2004 Residency – Physician-Scientist track, Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
07/2004-06/2006 Fellowship, Nephrology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Academic Appointments
07/2006-08/2009 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Bronx, NY
12/2007-08/2009 Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Bronx, NY
09/2009-10/2013 Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology
09/2015-08/2019 Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology
09/2019-present Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Administrative Appointment
11/2011-present Director of Geriatric Nephrology Clinic, University of Michigan
Clinical Appointment
11/2014-present Staff Physician, Internal Medicine – Nephrology, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System
Projects:
Cardiometabolic disease and acute kidney injury, Machine learning approach for quantitative morphometric assessment of kidney structure.
University Affiliation(s)
University of Michigan Medical School
Community and Professional Affiliation(s)
Human Cell atlas | Kidney Precision Medicine Project
Research Area(s)
Diabetes and management | Older adult chronic disease management | Systems biology | cardiovascular diseases
Publications
- Erratum: CD2AP in mouse and human podocytes controls a proteolytic program that regulates cytoskeletal structure and cellular survival (The Journal of Clinical Investigation (2011) 121, 10, (3965-3980) DOI: 10.1172/JCI58552)
- P2U-purinergic receptor activation mediates inhibition of cAMP accumulation in cultured renal mesangial cells
- Derivatization of methylamine and ethylamine followed by LC and fluorescence detection for measurement of urinary clearance
Grants
- Funded by: BITZER, Markus
- Principal investigator of: KITLG/KIT signaling in kidney fibrosis
- Co-investigator of: Using systems biology to understand the phenotype of diabetic kidney disease in youth-onset type 2 diabetes