A challenge in neurogenetics: Huntington disease in kids

15 September 2020

Joint webinar series by the European Reference Networks for Rare Neurological Diseases (ERN-RND) and Neuromuscular Diseases (ERN-EuroNMD) and the European Academy of Neurology (EAN).

Ferdinando Squitieri is a Neurologist with a PhD in Neurobiology. He has been studying and treating patients with Huntington’s disease and juvenile onset Huntington’s disease over the last 30 years. Ferdinando Squitieri is Head of the Huntington and Rare Diseases Unit at Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo Sofferenza Research Hospital in San Giovanni Rotondo and Head of the Neurology Department at CSS-Mendel Institute in Rome. His main line of research focuses on clinical, genetic and imaging changes in Huntington’s disease.

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