Louisa Gerhardt studied medicine at the University of Freiburg and completed her MD thesis on repair mechanisms following myocardial infarction at the Center of Systems Biology (MGH, HMS) in Boston. She started her medical training in Internal medicine in Switzerland and was awarded a research fellowship from the German Research Foundation in 2020 to study kidney repair mechanisms in the laboratory of Andrew McMahon at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. During her postdoctoral studies she combined single cell omics and spatial transcriptomics with lineage tracing approaches to enhance our understanding of adaptive and maladaptive repair following acute kidney injury. In 2022 Louisa Gerhardt relocated to the University Hospital Mannheim and the University of Heidelberg, where she continues her training as a clinician-scientist in Internal medicine and Nephrology, supported by a clinician-scientist fellowship of the German Society of Internal Medicine. Both as physician and as scientist she strives to improve care for patients with kidney disease.