Cell & Stem Cell Research

Biography

Paola Romagnani was born in Florence, Italy, in 1970. She graduated at the School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Florence in 1995 and obtained her PhD in 2001. In 1999, she has won the Hoechst Marion Roussel Foundation Award as best young Italian scientist. From 2006 she is Associate Professor of Nephrology and from 2009 Chair of Nephrology and Director of the Specialty School of Nephrology of the University of Florence. From 2010, she is Head of the Nephrology and Dialysis Unit at the University Hospital Meyer, Florence. She has published more than 140 manuscripts in international peer-reviewed journals. Her studies received over 10000 citations. In 2007, she has won the European Research Council Starting Grant Investigator Award. From 2008 to 2011 she coordinated a Cooperative European Project of the FP7 Program. From 2011 she is Ambassador of the European Commission for the Programme “Youth on the move”. From 2012 she is included in AcademiaNet, the database of excellent female scientists organized by Robert Bosch Stiftung’s foundation in collaboration with Nature. In 2014 she has won the European Research Council Consolidator Grant Award.

Abstract

Abstract : The renal parenchymal niches of progenitor cells and glomerular repair