…TIMESLOT: Thursday 18 December 2025, 16:00 CET
…MAIN TITLE: Update on Diagnostic Imaging in Neuromuscular Diseases
…PRESENTERS: Prof. Giorgio Tasca (John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre, Newcastle University, UK) & Harmen Reyngoudt, PhD (Institute of Myology, Paris, France)
Giorgio is a Clinical Professor of Neuromuscular Science at the John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre, Newcastle University, United Kingdom, since January 2023. He received his residency in Neurology in 2011 and completed a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 2014 at the Catholic University School of Medicine in Rome. His primary areas of research in neuromuscular disorders include muscle imaging in different adult-onset myopathies and muscular dystrophies, and the study of the molecular mechanisms and biomarkers in Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). He is co-chair of the Neuromuscular Imaging group of the Euro-NMD project (European Reference Network).
Harmen Reyngoudt obtained master’s degrees in chemistry and molecular biotechnology in Belgium. In 2011, he obtained a PhD degree in at Gent University (Belgium), working on quantitative multinuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) in brain (migraine, mild cognitive impairment, MS, normal ageing) and muscle (athletes). Between 2012 and 2014, he was a postdoctoral research follow at the School of Physics and the Brain and Mind Research Institute of the University of Sydney, Australia, working on the use of multinuclear MRS in cancer before and after radiation therapy. In 2014, he started as a research associate in the NMR Lab of the Institute of Myology primarily focusing on clinical multinuclear MRS (1H, 31P, 13C) and the relation between MRS and quantitative MRI in skeletal muscle of various neuromuscular disorders, and the valorization of MRI/S in muscle clinical research both in national and international studies. Since 2020, he is co-team leader of the NMR Lab.