Dr. Hiroki Kobayashi works at the Division of Nephrology, Hypertension, and Endocrinology Department of Internal Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, and is affiliated with the Section on Genetics & Epidemiology, Research Division, Overseas Research Fellowships (Japanese government-sponsored), Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kobayashi obtained an M.D. from Nihon University School of Medicine in 2011 and earned a Ph.D. in 2017. Dr. Kobayashi’s research interests mainly focus on Diabetic kidney disease, disease modeling, Primary aldosteronism, Chronic kidney disease, Nephrology, Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension, Renal replacement therapy, miRNA, Omics, and Gerontology. His scientific output includes 80 publications in various journals with an h-index of 20 (Scopus, February 2024).