Bob Berliner was one of the founding fathers of modern renal physiology. Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism for 12 years, in 1969 he became the first NIH Deputy Director for Science and, in 1973, Dean of the Yale University School of Medicine. Among his numerous honours and awards were the endowment by Yale of the Robert W Berliner Chair of Cardiology and Diagnostic Radiology, and the creation of the Robert W Berliner Lectureship in Renal Physiology.

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