Letizia De Chiara
ISN-KI Basic and Translational Nephrology Editorial Fellow
Dr. Letizia De Chiara is a molecular biologist and Marie Sklodowska-Curie funded postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Paola Romagnani at the University of Florence, Italy. She obtained her PhD at the Molecular Biotechnology Center of Turin, Italy, where she investigated the utility of novel stem cell therapies for the treatment of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and prevention of progression to Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Following the completion of her PhD studies, she moved to University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, and then she joined the Weill Cornell Medical College of New York, USA, to pursue her studies on stem cell plasticity and kidney injury. In 2019, she was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Reintegration Fellowship to return to Italy. Since then, her research has focused on investigating the link between AKI and CKD development. Recently, she was awarded a L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Award for her studies on developing new prognostic markers to stratify patients at risk of progressing toward CKD following AKI.
The ISN-KI Fellows will be acknowledged in the Editors’ Pick of ISN Journals: KI and KIR session taking place Sunday, February 27, 2022, 19:30-21:00 MYT (12:30-14:00 CET) in Room 4.