Massimiliano Filosto

Prof. Filosto is Associate Professor of Neurology at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia. He is Director of NeMO-Brescia Clinical Center, a Center of excellence for neuromuscular diseases affiliated with the ASST Spedali Civili of Brescia and the University of Brescia and part of the regional network for Rare Diseases.
Education and Academic Training:
1993: Degree in Medicine with honour, University of Catania
1999: Specialization in Neurology with honour, University of Verona
2003: PhD in Neurosciences, University of Verona
2002-2003: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, USA (Prof. S. DiMauro)

To date, Prof. Filosto is:
– Member of the Board of the Italian Association for the Study of the Peripheral Nervous System (ASNP)
– Coordinator of the Study Group in Neurogenetics and Rare Diseases of the Italian Society of Neurology (SIN)
– Regional coordinator of the Italian Association of Myology (AIM) for the Lombardy macro-region
– Coordinator of the Executive Board of the Study Group for Facio-Scapulo-Humeral Dystrophy of the Italian Association of Myology (AIM)
– Member of the Board of Healthcare Providers of the ERN-European Reference Network – Rare Neuromuscular Diseases (EURO-NMD), ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia
– Chair of the Management Group of the “Scientific Panel” Muscle & NMJ Disorders of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN)
– Full Individual Member and FEAN (fellow) of the European Academy of Neurology and effective member of the following “Scientific Panels” of the Society: Muscle & NMJ Disorders, Neuropathies, ALS and Frontotemporal Dementia, Neurogenetics, Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases
– Member of the EAN UEMS SN/EBN Joint Education Board (JEB) with the role of EAN representative for the European Board of Neurological Examination.
– Individual Member of the Treat-NMD Alliance Neuromuscular Network
– Member of the national medical-scientific commission of the Union for the Fight against Muscular Dystrophies (UILDM), as Vice President, with delegation to the Scientific Responsibility of the official national magazine of the Association, DM.
– Member of the national medical-scientific commission of MITOCON Onlus – mitochondrial diseases.
– Member of the Editorial Boards of specialized journals including Frontiers in Neurology, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Neurological Sciences, Acta Myologica and Journal of Clinical Medicine.

The main interests in the field of neurosciences are muscle, nerve and motor neuron diseases. His work focuses on muscular dystrophies, especially Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrohy, and metabolic myopathies, mainly on pathological findings, epigenetic and genetic aspects and genotype/phenotype relation in muscle glycogenosis and mitochondrial diseases. He also involved in studying etiological and pathogenetic aspects of ALS and inflammatory neuropathies.
He is involved as a principal investigator in several national and international clinical studies and trials on neuromuscular diseases.

He’s author- coauthor of more than 200 papers on PubMed-indexed international journals and more than 350 abstracts for national and international congresses.

Roles in the ERN:

• HCP main contact person
• BOARD representative
• GUIDELINES core group member
• WG Muscle
• WG Mitochondrial
• WG Peripheral Nerve
• WG MND ALS
• WG MND SMA
• CSWG Neuromuscular Imaging
• CSWG Neuromuscular Pathology
• Genetics Board (chair: A. Ferlini)