Peter G Czarnecki

Peter Czarnecki earned his M.D. degree from the University of Freiburg in Germany, where he worked on biochemical interactions between nephronophthisis proteins in the laboratory of Gerd Walz. He moved to the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, for his residency training in internal medicine and his fellowship in critical care medicine. At the Mayo Clinic, he continued his basic research on ciliopathies in the laboratory of Peter Harris. He came to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA...See more

Peter Czarnecki earned his M.D. degree from the University of Freiburg in Germany, where he worked on biochemical interactions between nephronophthisis proteins in the laboratory of Gerd Walz. He moved to the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, for his residency training in internal medicine and his fellowship in critical care medicine. At the Mayo Clinic, he continued his basic research on ciliopathies in the laboratory of Peter Harris. He came to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA, for his training in nephrology. He conducted clinical research in polycystic kidney disease under the mentorship of Ted Steinman, and he was a co-investigator on the HALT-PKD trials. At the same time, he pursued further basic research in ciliary biology with Jagesh Shah at Brigham and Women's Hospital, characterizing developmental signaling mechanisms in the ciliary Inversin Compartment. He took his first faculty position as Associate Physician in the Division of Renal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2014 and was appointed Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is member of the Harvard PKD center, continues his basic research in ciliary biology, and started a new subspecialty clinic for cystic and genetic kidney diseases at BWH. See less