Kitching A Richard

Professor Richard Kitching (MB ChB [with distinction], PhD, FRACP, FASN, FAMHS) is a nephrologist physician-scientist in the Centre for Inflammatory Diseases within the Monash University Department of Medicine. He is an NHMRC Investigator Leadership Fellow (2022-2026). His clinical practice in Nephrology and Vasculitis helps define important questions in the causes of immune kidney disease and how they can be better treated. His research focuses on the relationship between the immune system and the kidney, with a particular interest in the role of adaptive immunity in autoimmune vasculitis and nephritis. His research program has established the roles of pathogenic and protective cellular immunity in vasculitis, the role of infection, and the critical epitopes within autoantigens that cause disease, so that antigen specific treatments are now possible. In 2018 he and colleagues in Australia and New Zealand from the disciplines of Clinical Immunology, Nephrology and Rheumatology founded the ANZ Vasculitis Society (ANZVASC) a patient facing multidisciplinary professional society to improve vasculitis education, research and care in Australia and New Zealand. He has been funded by NHMRC Project and CRE Grants, and an EU Horizon 20/20 Consortium resulting in publications in Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Reviews Disease Primers, The New England Journal of Medicine, PNAS USA, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Nature Communications, Blood, Nature Reviews Nephrology, The Journal of the American Society of Nephrology and Kidney International. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology and is on the Editorial Boards of Kidney International, The Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology, and Internal and Emergency Medicine.