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KidneyGen Africa 1st workshop

at the heart of CKD genomics in Africa

GWAS

kidney function

Africa

A joy to be part of the training committee of the 1st KidneyGen Africa workshop on Jan 25-31 in Johannesburg. A great opportunity of exchange with many outstanding…

One size does not fit all

a commentary on a recent GWAS of kidney volumes

GWAS

kidney function

Following a kind invite by Kidney International, Prof. Belen Ponte and I wrote a short commentary on the genomic screening of kidney volumes paper by Sara Monteiro-Martins an…

Servants of all sciences?

educational lecture @ UniPD

statistics

biomedicine

Always an emotion to return to my alma mater! As part of Prof. Laura Ventura’s Medical Statistics course at the Department of Statistics @ University of Padova, I had the…

SISMEC Congress 2025

where our group presented three talks

triangulation

causal inference

neuroepidemiology

nutritional epidemiology

Participating to the 2025 SISMEC congress in the beautiful Pavia was extremely interesting. In front of Ghislieri statue, the congress was opened by Prof. Buscema’s…

DSP-AS1 has a regulatory role on DSP

molecular causal inference through triangulation

causal inference

Mendelian randomization

genomics

desmoplakin

CVD

After a long journey, we could finally publish this fantastic work.