Dr. Fornoni obtained her MD and her PhD degree in Medical Pharmacology at the Universita’ degli Studi di Pavia (Italy). She later joined the laboratory of Renal Cell Biology (Vascular Biology Institute) at the University of Miami, where she worked on animal models of diabetic nephropathy and on the role of mesangial stem cells progenitors. After 4 years of post-doctoral fellowship, Dr. Fornoni completed a residency program in Internal Medicine and a Fellowship in Nephrology at the University of Miami and is currently Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Nephrology. Dr. Fornoni has established a dedicated Diabetic Nephropathy clinic at the University of Miami Diabetes Research Institute, that has attracted patients from all over the world.