Francesca Mallamaci

Specialized in Nephrology at the University of Messina in 1983, after graduating in Medicine and Surgery in 1978, she completed her clinical and scientific training as a Clinical Scientist at the Renal Unit of the Western Infirmary in Glasgow (1981-1982). Subsequently, she obtained a Master's degree from the Italian Society of Arterial Hypertension (1993-1997), training in Clinical Epidemiology and courses in Molecular Genetics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (1996), and specialization in arterial hypertension at the European Society of Hypertension (2001).

She directed the Nephrology, Dialysis, and Transplant Unit at the Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli Hospital in Reggio Calabria until 2024, focusing her research on dialysis , cardiovascular complications in nephropathic patients, genetics of renal disease, and the study of extracellular volume overload (LUST Study). She supervised the Clinical Epidemiology and Pathophysiology Research Unit at the National Research Council (CNR) in Reggio Calabria and was clinical coordinator of the EURECA-m international registry of the European Society of Nephrology (ERA). She currently continues research with external collaborations.

Former Associate Editor of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation and Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Nephrology (of which she was Editor-in-Chief from 2006 to 2012), she is the author of hundreds of international publications listed in PubMed. Former President of the Scientific Committee of SIN (2014) and President of the ERA Scientific Committee for the European Congress of Nephrology in Milan in June 2023, she is ranked among the world's top experts in chronic kidney disease in the Expertscape ranking and was awarded an Honorary Degree from the University of Ioannina in 2024 and the ERA Award for scientific excellence in 2025. From 2024 to present, she has been Associate Editor of CJASN and Theme Editor of CKJ (Nephrology journals with a high Impact Factor).