Prof. Vincenzo Cantaluppi, MD

Vincenzo Cantaluppi is Full Professor of Nephrology and Director of the Graduate School in Nephrology at the School of Medicine of the University of Piemonte Orientale (UPO) in Novara, Italy.

He is the Director of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation Unit at the "Maggiore della Carità" University Hospital in Novara, Italy.

His clinical and research activities are mainly focused on Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and extracorporeal blood purification therapies, inflammation, biocompatibility and cardiovascular risk in chronic hemodialysis, kidney transplantation and pancreatic islet transplantation in uremic diabetic patients, immune-mediated and rare glomerular and tubulo-interstitial diseases, stem cell therapy including the use of progenitor-derived extracellular vesicles.

Prof. Cantaluppi is the founder and member of the AKI and CRRT Project Group of the Italian Society of Nephrology (SIN), member of the joint commission SIN-SITO (Italian Society for Organ Transplantation) and SIN-SIAARTI (Italian Society of Analgesia, Anesthesia and Critical Care) and Vice-Chair of the ERAKI Working Group of the European Renal Association (ERA).  For his interest in the pathogenic mechanisms of AKI in native and transplanted kidneys, Prof Cantaluppi was invited to be a member of the international expert working group ADQI (Acute Disease Quality Initiative).