Pietro Cippà obtained his MD degree in 2007 from the University of Zurich. He worked as a clinical and research fellow from 2009 to 2015 at the University Hospital Zurich, where he obtained his PhD, his clinical specialization in internal medicine and in nephrology and the venia legendi. From 2016 to 2018 he worked at the Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USA). Since 2018 he has been the chief of the division of Nephrology in Lugano and the group leader of the nephrology research group. Since 2020 he has been the Medical Director of the Department of Medicine of the EOC.

Our research is focused on the fundamental processes of kidney repair. Research conducted in our laboratory aim to map the cellular types and states involved in tissue repair after acute and chronic kidney injury and investigate the role and the cell-cell interactions of the cellular components identified. In a translational perspective, our objective is to synergize clinical and laboratory research to discover key regulators of kidney repair which would help in the development of diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for renal disease.