Personalized Therapy for Podocytopathies with Prof. Paola Romagnani

Learning Objectives: To discuss the pathogenesis of podocytopathies; To review the classification of diseases affecting podocytes; To discuss recent advances in personalized management for patients with podocytopathies. Paola Romagnani, MD, PhD, is Head of the Medical Department at the University Children’s Hospital Anna Meyer, Florence, and Full Professor and Chair of Nephrology at the University of Florence, Italy. Paola Romagnani graduated and obtained her PhD in Endocrinology and her Residency in Nephrology from the University of Florence, Italy. She has published 262 papers in international Journal including Science Trslational Medicine, JCI, Nature Communications, J Exp Med, Blood, JASN, KI, Nature Reviews Immunology, Nature Reviews Nephrology, Nature Disease Primer and many others. Her studies received over 31000 citations. She served in the Editorial Board of JASN and KI. She has given over 400 lectures, including numerous plenaries, in the most important international meetings of nephrology and other disciplines. She is funded by national and international agencies and coordinated a European cooperative project. In 1999 she was awarded the Hoechst Marion Roussel Young Investigator Award. She won three European Research Council (ERC) Grants, a Starting in 2007, a Consolidator in 2014 and an Advanced in 2020. In 2014-2019, she served as member of the European Renal Association (ERA) Scientific Advisory Board. In 2020 she has won the ERA-EDTA Award for Outstanding Basic Science Contributions to Nephrology