Paola Romagnani was born in Florence, March, the 2^nd, 1970.

1995: Graduated in Medicine and Surgery, University of Florence (maximum vote with honour).

1996-2001: PhD fellow in the Department of Pathophysiology at the University of Florence.

1999: She wins a fellowship of the Italian Society of Nephrology for a stage in the "Institut of Transplantion and of Research on Transplantation" in Nantes (France).

2001, March 5: She gets her PhD at the University of Florence.

2002: She becomes Researcher in Nephrology at the University of Florence, where she works also as a clinician in the Careggi University Hospital, Florence.

2004: She becomes Head of the Interdepartmental Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Nephrology.

2004: She becomes specialist in Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation.

Since 2006: Associate Professor and Chair of Nephrology at the University of Florence.

2007: She wins the First Edition of the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Young Investigator Award for her project that proposes the existence of a renopoietic system (selected among 9167 applications in all areas of knowledge).

2007-2010: Head of the Regenerative Medicine Unit at the Careggi University Hospital, Florence.

Since 2008: member of Scientific Board of the Center of Excellence for Research, Transfer and High Education of the University of Florence DENOTHE.

Since 2008: Coordinator of the European Project STAR−TREK for the Set up of Stem cell therapies for renal disorders.

Since 2009: Director of the Specialization School in Nephrology of the University of Florence.

2010-2011: Co−editor of the Journal of Nephrology

Since 2010: Head of the Nephrology Unit at the Pediatric University Meyer Hospital, Florence, Italy.

Since 2010: Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Since 2011: Director also of the Specialization Schools of Nephrology of the University of Siena.

Since 2011: Ambassador for Italy of the European Commission for the Programme Youth on the move

Since 2012: She is included in AcademiaNet (www.academia-net.org), the database of outstanding european female scientist organized by Robert Bosch Stiftung’s foundation in collaboration with Nature.

2013: Invited Chairman for the International Society of Nephrology Forefronts in Nephrology Meeting, a leading annual event that addresses cutting edge areas of research in nephrology "Stem Cells and Kidney regeneration" (www.isnforefronts.org). Co-chairs P.Anversa and BD Humphreys, Harvard Medical School.

Paola Romagnani's work is recognized by 124 publications in international peer−reviewed journals with a total impact factor of over 750 (ISI). She has received more than 7000 citations so far, with an H−index of 46 (Scopus).

Paola Romagnani's studies were published in major international peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary scientific journals and in the leading international peer-reviewed journals of nephrology and other disciplines: four papers in J Exp Med, one in J Clin Invest, three in Trends Immunol, one in Endocrine Rev, eight  in Blood, nine in JASN, one in Circ Res, one in Gastroenterology). Her studies were selected for the cover of Blood, J Clin Invest and J Am Soc Nephrol twice. She is first author in 26 papers, last author in 23 papers, corresponding author in 34 papers. Four papers were the subject of editorials.

She is reviewer of several international journals such as Nature Medicine, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Blood, Trends in Immunology, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Kidney International, American Journal of Transplantation, Stem Cells, Journal of Pathology, Transplantation.

She is author of book chapters in several international books edited by Elsevier, Karger AG, Landes Bioscience, Academic Press.