ArielaBenigni ItalyMario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Italy

Ariela Benigni, Biol.Sci.D, PhD, is Scientific Secretary and Research Coordinator at Bergamo sites of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research. She spent time training abroad, in Strasbourg, London and Boston. Her team identified vasoactive and inflammatory mediators of renal damage in experimental and human progressive renal diseases. Recent interest of her group focuses on looking at therapies to halt renal disease progression or even induce kidney regeneration by multidrug approach as well as stem cell therapy. She dedicated much of her time to the growth of young scientific investigators. She has held distinguished positions internationally, including Senior Fellow in Obstetric Medicine at University of Oxford and currently appointed as Italian Delegate of the Horizon Europe Program Committee, Health Cluster 2021-2027. She acted as Associate and Academic Editor of several international journals and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Nephron. She published about 355 articles, belonged to Program Committees for international nephrology meetings, received many national and international awards and belongs to the Top Italian Women Scientists groups.