Scientific Committee
Our Scientific Committee is composed of an international group of neuroscientists and neurologists with particular expertise in spinal muscular atrophy. It is coordinated by SMA Europe Research and Medical Manager.
Professor of Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, UK and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Anatomy
Neurologist, Full Professor of Neurology and Principal Investigator of Neural Stem Cell Lab at the University of Milan in Italy
Professor of Neuromuscular & Skeletal Disorders, School of Medicine, Keele University, UK
Head, Center of Translational and Experimental Myology, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, and Contract Professor in Paediatrics at the School of Medicine, University of Genova, Italy
Group Leader and Professor at the institute of Neuroanatomy and Cell Biology at the Hannover Medical School, Germany
Paediatric Neurologist and Director of the Center for Experimental Neurotherapeutics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Senior Researcher, SMA Center of Expertise, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
Professor of Palliative Care for Children and Young People at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK
Head of INSERM/UEVE UMR 861 in I-STEM, institute dedicated to the use of human pluripotent stem cells to study and treat monogenic diseases, Paris, France.
Group Leader, Carl-Ludwig Institute for Physiology, Leipzig University, Germany
Professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
Neurologist and Professor of Neurology, head of the Netherlands SMA center at the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) in The Netherlands.
Professor of neurology, psychiatry, clinical genetics, and director of Semmelweis University’s Institute of Genomic Medicine and Rare Disorders, Budapest, Hungary.