BRC Associate Deputy Directors, Professor of Renal Medicine, Data Academic Lead
Professor John Sayer is a Professor of Renal Medicine at Newcastle University and Consultant Nephrologist at the Freeman Hospital’s Renal Services Centre. He has a particular interest in inherited kidney diseases and renal stone disease.
Professor Sayer’s clinical interests are inherited kidney disease which include a wide range of disorders including cystic kidney disease, tubulopathies and kidney stone disorders. He runs a regional renal genetics clinic and a family renal genetics clinic.
At a national level Professor Sayer leads several Renal Rare Diseases Working Groups including ARPKD, Nephronophthisis, Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease, Fabry Disease, Mitochondrial Disease, Salt wasting alkaloses, Cystinuria and Cystinosis.