PierreRonco ParisFrance

Pierre Ronco, MD, PhD, is Professor of Nephrology at Sorbonne Université. He has devoted his career to the care of patients with glomerular disease and the identification of pathophysiological mechanisms and novel therapeutic strategy, particularly in the field of membranous nephropathy. He is an author of > 500 research publications (New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Science, Nature Com.), and 30 chapters. He received the Jean Hamburger awards from ISN and Francophone Society of Nephrology, the prize for outstanding basic research (ERA) and an ERC advanced grant ; he is an ERA distinguished fellow, Honorary Member of the Japanese Society of Nephrology, and Doctor Honoris Causa of the UC Louvain University. He is a member of the Academia Europeae, the French Academy of Medicine and the Royal Academy of Medicine (Belgium). He served as President of the Francophone Society of Nephrology, President of the ERA congress in Paris in 2012 and 2022. He has been serving ISN for >30 years as Councilor, Program Chair of 4 WCNs (Madrid 1995, Milan 2009, Cape Town 2015, Mexico City 2017) and Associate Editor of Kidney International. He is currently Editor in Chief since 2018.