Prof. Thomas Fehr studied medicine at the University of Zurich, CH, and trained in nephrology at the University Hospital Zurich and the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Switzerland. During his research career he undertook two fellowships in the laboratory of Nobel Prize winner Prof. Rolf Zinkernagel in Zurich and the laboratory of Prof. Megan Sykes at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, US. After his return from the US, he held a position as a clinician scientist at the nephrology division at University Hospital Zurich for almost 10 years. During that period, he was responsible for the renal transplant program and served as a head of the Zurich Transplant Center from 2009-2013. Since 2014 Prof. Fehr holds a position as medical director of the Department of Medicine and member of the executive board of the Cantonal Hospital Graubünden, Chur.

Prof. Fehr has a strong research interest in immunology, with focus on transplantation immunology in experimental models and in clinical organ and stem cell transplantation. He currently is the principal investigator of a clinical trial for induction of immunological tolerance towards a renal allograft by combined transplantation of kidney and hematopoietic stem cells.

Prof. Fehr is highly engaged in teaching at the Medical Faculty of Zurich. He teaches bedside courses in Internal Medicine in Chur and gives lectures on nephrology, electrolyte disorders and transplantation immunology, both at UZH and at ETH.