Paola Fioretto is Professor of Medicine at the University of Padova, Italy. She started her research on renal physiology in diabetes and during her Fellowship at the University of Minnesota, USA, she devoted her interest to renal structure in diabetes. Among her contributions are the description of the heterogeneity in the structural lesions in type 2 diabetes and of reversal of diabetic glomerulopathy lesions in patients with type 1 diabetes after pancreas transplantation. She has received several awards, including the Golgi Prize from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes(EASD), a Career Development Award from JDFI, the Morgagni Young Investigator Award, the Novartis Young Investigator Award, and the Italian Society of Diabetology Award. She has been President of the European Diabetic Nephropathy Study Group of he EASD (2005–2007) and Vice President of he EASD (2014–2017). She has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers and 30 book chapters.