Trained in Pediatrics at the University of Pavia, Italy. She completed a Research Fellowship at Harvard University – Children’s Hospital Boston with Prof Raif Geha, studying murine B cell function.
Since 2023, she heads the Laboratory of Nephrology and the Clinical Trial Center of the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital.
She co-chairs the European Rare Kidney disease Network (ERKNet) Working Group on TMAs and its Registry, is a Fellow of the European Society of Pediatric Nephrology and on the Scientific Advisory Board of ERA. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of Kidney International and JASN. She has co-chaired International Pediatric Nephrology Association guidelines for CNS, SRNS, SSNS and IgAN/V, the KDIGO Guidelines of glomerular diseases and co-chaired National Kidney Foundation and KDIGO projects on complement-mediated renal diseases.