Paola Fioretto MD, PhD

Dr. Paola Fioretto is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Padova, Padua, Italy. She began researching renal physiology in diabetes during her postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, where her research interests focused on renal structure and ultrastructure in diabetes. Professor Fioretto’s contributions to the understanding of diabetic kidney disease include descriptions of heterogeneity in the structural lesions underlying renal dysfunction in type 2 diabetes and the reversal of established diabetic glomerulopathy lesions in patients with type 1 diabetes after pancreas transplantation. Her research interests also include the effects of glucose-lowering therapies on the development and progression of diabetic kidney disease.

Professor Fioretto has published over 200 papers and 30 book chapters, and has received several awards, including the Albert Renold Award and Golgi Prize from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD); a Career Development Award from JDFI; the Morgagni Young Investigator Award; the Novartis Young Investigator Award; and the Italian Society of Diabetology Award. Professor Fioretto’s previous positions include Vice President of the EASD (2014–2017) and President of the European Diabetic Nephropathy Study Group of the EASD (2005–2007).