Paola Fioretto
MD, PhD
Medicine
Endocrinology
Padova, Italy
Paola Fioretto is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Padova, Italy. She started her research on renal physiology in diabetes and, during her PostDoc Research Fellowship at the University of Minnesota, she devoted her interest to renal structure and ultrastructure in diabetes. Among her contributions to the understanding of diabetic kidney disease are the descriptions of the 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.
Professor Fioretto’s research interest includes the effects of glucose-lowering therapies on the development and progression of diabetic kidney disease. She has received several awards, including the Albert Renold Award from the EASD (European Association for the Study of Diabetes), a Career Development Award from JDFI, the Morgagni Young Investigator Award, the Novartis Young Investigator, the Italian Society of Diabetology Award, and the Golgi Prize from the EASD. She has been Vice President of the EASD (2014-2017), and President of the European Diabetic Nephropathy Study Group of the EASD (2005-2007). She has published over 190 papers and 30 book chapters.
