- Current President of the Italian Society of Nephrology
- Full professor of Nephrology at the Università Statale di Medicina , Milan Italy
- Director of the Division of Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant of the Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda - Ospedale Maggiore-Policlinico in Milan
- Director of the postgraduate School of specialization in Nephrology, Università Statale di Medicina , Milan Italy, from 2017 to 2020
- Scientific President of the national Congress of the Italian Society of Nephrology in 2006 (Rome) • He has been the Secretary of the World Nephrology Congress of 2009
- He published 374 in indexed journals (e.g. NEJM, Lancet, KI, AJT, CJASN, AJKD, NDT, Bone, Sci Rep, Transplantation, JN, Nephron, Clin Sci, Clinical Nephrol, SMI, etc ).
- He is theme editor of NDT and in the editorial board of JN, Blood Purification and serves as referee for a wide number of international journals (e.g.KI, AJT, NDT, AJKD, CJASN, Nature Nephrology, Curr Op Drug Metab Tox, JN, J Art Org, Renal Fail, Endocrinology, Digestive Diseases and Sciences, etc.)
- He had talks in more than 450 national and international symposia and a number of lectures in the Postgraduate Courses of Nephrology in other Italian Universities of Medicine (Padova, Bologna, Firenze, Perugia, Trieste, etc).
- He participated to more than 60 trials of Phase II or Phase III or Phase IV • He completed GCP Course (Nida Clinical Trials Network) on 25 January 2017
