President of the Italian Society of Nephrology (2020-2022) • Full professor of Nephrology at the Università Statale di Medicina , Milan Italy up to 2021 (then retired) • Director of the Division of Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant of the Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda - Ospedale Maggiore-Policlinico in Milan up to 2021 (then retired) • Director of the postgraduate School of specialization in Nephrology, Università Statale di Medicina , Milan Italy, from 2017 to 2020 • Scientific President of the national Congress of the Italian Society of Nephrology in 2006 (Rome) • Secretary of the World Nephrology Congress of 2009 • President of the ERA-EDTA congress Milan 2023 • He published 414 in indexed journals (e.g. NEJM, Lancet, KI, AJT, CJASN, AJKD, NDT, Bone, Sci Rep, Transplantation, JN, Nephron, Clin Sci, Clinical Nephrol, SMI, etc ). • HI 56 (SCOPUS) • Editorial Board of NDT, Nutrients, JN, Nutrients, Frontiers in medicine, Blood Purification; referee for more than 60 international journals (e.g.KI, AJT, NDT, AJKD, CJASN, Nature Nephrology, Curr Op Drug Metab Tox, JN, J Art Org, Renal Fail, Endocrinology, Digestive Diseases and Sciences, etc.) • He had talks in more than 450 national and international symposia and a number of lectures in the Postgraduate Courses of Nephrology in other Italian Universities of Medicine (Padova, Bologna, Firenze, Perugia, Trieste, etc). • He participated to more than 60 trials of Phase II or Phase III or Phase IV • He completed GCP Course (Nida Clinical Trials Network) on 25 January 2017