Francesco Emma received his medical degree and completed his pediatric residency at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). He trained in Pediatric Nephrology at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard University.  He moved in 1998 to the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome, where he holds the position of Director of the Division of Nephrology since 2005 and is currently the Research Coordinator of Research in Clinical Genetics and Translational Medicine. 

Dr. Emma’s primary research interests are in rare renal diseases, in particular in cystinosis and nephrotic syndrome.  He has authored >250 research articles and several textbook chapters, and is a senior editor of the IPNA textbook “Pediatric Nephrology”.   He has served in several editorial boards and scientific society committees in the fields of Nephrology and Pediatric Nephrology. He is the current Assistant President of the European Society Pediatric Nephrology (ESPN).