At the World Congress of Nephrology, renowned speakers present named lectures:
| Claude Amiel Lecture | Donald Seldin Lecture | Steven Hebert Lecture | |
| 2019 | Stephen Simpson | Shimon Sakaguchi | |
| 2017 | Mark Pepys | Melissa Little | |
| 2015 | Stanislav Dusko Ehrlich | Olivier Devuyst | |
| 2013 | Lisheng Liu | Nine Knoers | |
| 2011 | David H. Sachs | David J. Salant | |
| 2009 | Jules Hoffmann | Kari Stefansson | Kari Alitalo |
| 2007 | Gregg L. Semenza | Kevin Davis | |
| 2005 | Peter Agre | Amin Arnaout | |
| 2003 | Roderick MacKinnon | Günter Blobel |
| Brenner/Dirks Lecture | Stewart Cameron Lecture | Hugh de Wardener Lecture | |
| 2019 | Sania Nishtar | Carola Vinuesa | Jonathan Himmelfarb |
| 2017 | Philipp Scherer | Richard Flavell | John Stamatoyannopoulos |
| 2015 | Shabir A. Madhi | Katalin Suszstak | Tom Kirkwood |
| 2013 | Adib Rizvi Elmi Muller |
Myles Wolf | |
| 2011 | Wendy Hoy | ||
| 2009 | Jeremy K. Nicholson | ||
| 2007 | Luc Noël Francis L. Delmonico |
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| 2005 | David Weatherall | ||
| 2003 | Giuseppe Remuzzi |