Carolina Conte

Our study "Piezo1, F-actin, and podcyte survival and regeneration" has been selected by the ASN editorial team for inclusion in their 2025 JASN-themed highlight edition. @MarEleMelica @PRomagnani @GiuAntonelli12 @AnnaPeired @ElenaLazzeri2 @letiziadechiara @CarolinaConte5

A new Science study in mice provides insights into why females in their reproductive years appear to be relatively protected from chronic kidney disease, a leading public health concern. Learn more: scim.ag/3JO2DEC

Preeclampsia from failed podocyte renewal leaves its mark across generations—compare newborn kidneys from normal vs. podocyte-deficient pregnancies. These colorful dots are nephrons science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

1/6: New paper: Sexual dimorphism in kidney disease and kidney adaptation to pregnancy are rooted in renal progenitor biology. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our new study in Science is out! CKD progresses slower in females. 🔹Estrogens boost female renal progenitors to produce new podocytes for pregnancy adaptation. 🔹Loss of this mechanism causes preeclampsia, maternal CKD risk & fewer nephrons in offspring. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Look how much more important is to know if a patient is genetic or has anti-slit antibodies than if has MCD or FSGS at kidney biopsy. We have finally come to the era of autoimmune, genetic and adaptive podocytopathies. No more MCD or FSGS used as diagnosis!

Our new study is out! By STED microscopy on kidney biopsy and ELISA assays we show 1/3 of pediatric and half of adult patients (more in primary FSGS) have autoantibodies against slit antigens different from nephrin. i.e. anti-slit Abs kidney-international.org/action/showPdf…

A new study from our group demonstrates that tubular cell polyploidy protects from lethal AKI but promotes consequent CKD. Just published in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

What is a crescent? An abnormal response of renal progenitors while trying to replace lost podocytes. Our new study shows reversal of crescents into podocytes is anyway possible and changes disease outcome science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Turning crescents into podocytes: the podocyte marker synaptopodin in purple and the renal progenitors in green. Our new study the cover story of Sci Transl Med this week science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Check out our new review on tubular cell cycle response upon AKI!!👇👇👇🧐🧐🧐@ElenaLazzeri2 @CarolinaConte5 @GiuAntonelli12

Honoured to be in the list and grateful to the @ERC_Research for supporting research on renal progenitors and kidney diseases #ERCAdG

Happy that Science selected our study on AKI and kidney tumour for the Kidney Update 2020 together with the beautiful studies of @KSusztak and @staruschenko!!!! sciencemag.org/collections/ki…

I'am delighted to share our new review on phenocopies in steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome, now out in @IJERPH_MDPI. The genetic landscape of SRNS is strikingly changing mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/2… @PRomagnani @samuela_land @fondazionemeyer @MeyerScienza @SinReni

Our Nature Primer "Podocytopathies" is out! A shift in paradigm from patient stratification based on kidney biopsy findings towards personalized management based on clinical, morphological and genetic data is needed for these patients! nature.com/articles/s4157…

Imaging the kidney: from light to super-resolution microscopy academic.oup.com/ndt/advance-ar… @NDTsocial @LeicaMicro @SRMicro_papers @womeninnephro @embl #kidney #microscopy #sted #imaging #superresolution

La scienza ha migliorato la vita di tutti, anche quella dei cretini che grazie a internet (prodotto della scienza) hanno l’illusione di essere intelligenti #chetempochefa

Kidney, Heart and Liver not so different after all! Our new Review that discusses shared cell mechanisms (endoreplication and progenitor proliferation) in different organs to survive acute failure just went online cell.com/trends/molecul… #AKI #liver #heart @ERC_Research @ISSCR

Essere #cittadini ➡️➡️Docenti, ricercatori ed esperti da prestigiose Università ed enti di ricerca italiani ed europei, si confrontano su #responsabilità e #moralità nella #comunicazione scientifica, impiego degli #OGM e la paura dei #vaccini. Oggi e domani a @LaStatale.

I sovversivi della scienza (a @LaStatale con Elena Cattaneo).