Fabiola Terzi
italian-French scientist and physician
Fabiola Terzi is an Italian-French scientist and physician. She is known for her research on chronic kidney disease. Since January 2020, she serves as the director of the research Institut Necker-Enfants Malades (INEM) in Paris. In 2025, she was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Life and career
Fabiola Terzi attended medical school at the University of Milan where she graduated with a medical degree (M.D.) in 1986. She then trained as a pediatrician in the team of Professor Fabio Sereni in Milan specializing in pediatric nephrology. In 1989 she moved to Paris where she continued her specialization in pediatric nephrology in the team of Professor Michael Broyer and started a Ph.D. project under the supervision of Professor Claire Kleinknecht (Université Paris Diderot, Paris) developing her interest for the molecular mechanisms of renal diseases. After her doctorate, she went on to train as a postdoc, first in the team of Professor Pascal Briand (Institut Cochin, Paris), then in the team of Professor Gérard Friedlander (Faculté de Médecine, Site Bichat, Paris).
With time she progressively focused on the physiopathology of chronic kidney disease (CKD). From 2003 on, she began to build up her own laboratory ("Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategies of Chronic Kidney Disease"), which she has headed since then.
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