Director of Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research and “Chiara Fama” Professor of Nephrology, University of Milan. He has been member of the Consiglio Superiore di Sanità since February 2019. He was Chief of Nephrology at Bergamo Hospital and Director of the Department of Medicine.
His main research interests include the causes of glomerulonephritis and the mechanisms of progression of kidney diseases. He has also conducted many studies in the field of transplant rejection. He was President of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) for the biennium 2013-2015. In recognition of his achievements, he received many national and international awards, among them the John P. Peters Award (American Society of Nephrology 2007, San Francisco) the ISN AMGEN Award (World Congress of Nephrology: WCN 2011, Vancouver), the International Award "Luis Hernando" (Iñigo Alvarez de Toledo Renal Foundation (FRIAT): Madrid, Spain) and the “Lennox K. Black International Prize for Excellence in Medicine” (Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia). Prof. Remuzzi was honoured by the Italian President of the Republic with the title of Cavaliere di Gran Croce in 2022. He is the author of hundreds of publications in international medical journals and has written several books.
