Giuseppe Remuzzi

Director

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 ISN Jean Hamburger Award in 2005 during the World Congress of Nephrology in
Singapore, 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).
From 2024 he is Corresponding Member of the Academy of the Lincei - Physical, Mathematical
and Natural Sciences.
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.