Three PhD positions will be available within the Health Holland consortium project. The PhD position based in Nijmegen at the department of Physiology Radboudumc is focussed on the development of advanced renal disease models to allow better functional characterization in order to understand the causative mechanisms of the pathogenic mutations in renal disease patients. Altogether this proposal will improve diagnostics, genetic counselling, prognostics, and treatment of patients with genetic kidney diseases.