Team

Jean-François Augusto is Professor of Nephrology at the University of Angers and has headed the Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation at Angers University Hospital since 2018. Trained in Caen and Angers, he complemented his clinical path with a PhD in immunology and postdoctoral research on autoimmunity at the University of Bordeaux. Grounded in daily clinical practice, he has spent his career at the interface of kidney transplantation and immune-mediated kidney diseases, with a long-standing interest in ANCA-associated vasculitis and lupus nephritis, from innate immune mechanisms to everyday decisions at the bedside.

He is closely involved in training the next generation of nephrologists, coordinating the specialty programme for the Pays de la Loire region, and contributes to national care guidelines for vasculitis as well as to the editorial life of several nephrology and immunology journals.

Prof. Benoît Brilland

Professor of Nephrology, University of Angers · Angers University Hospital (France)

Benoît Brilland is Professor of Nephrology at the University of Angers and a nephrologist at Angers University Hospital. Mainly trained in Angers and Montreal, he wove research into his clinical path early on, adding a PhD in immunology and training in biostatistics at the University of Bordeaux. From 2023 to 2025 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Inflammation Genomics Laboratory (Langlais Lab) at McGill University in Montreal (Canada), exploring the transcriptomics of glomerulonephritis.

His work aims to connect what clinicians observe at the bedside with what the data can reveal: he coordinates the Maine-Anjou AAV-GN Registry and its biobank, develops prognostic tools to help tailor treatment in kidney vasculitis, and sets up experimental models in the laboratory to dissect disease mechanisms. He also teaches nephrology and immunology, and is strongly committed to mentoring students at every stage of their training.