Scientific Committee

The role and procedure of ELA International Scientific Committee

The ELA International Scientific Committee regroups 15 members.

The president, Pr. Florian Eichler (MassGeneral Hospital for Children – Boston, USA), is assisted by a vice-President, Dr. Caroline Sevin (Hôpital Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France).

The members serve for 3 years. A third of the committee will be renewed every year. The Scientific Committee includes international experts of leukodystrophies who meet twice a year and whenever necessary.

The Scientific Committee develops the rules of procedure related to the call for proposals and establishes the content of the call according to the guidelines established by ELA International. The President, in connection with the ELA International Research Department, chooses and updates the list of experts solicited to review the projects submitted to ELA International.

The Scientific Committee evaluates the research projects submitted to ELA International following the annual call for proposals with the help of external reviews, and identify the best projects.
It also evaluates projects outside of the call for proposals.

The Scientific Committee’s mission is also to encourage exchanges between its members.

Florian EICHLER Nationality: American President of the Scientific Committee MD Pediatric and Adult Neurology Director of the Leukodystrophy Service Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA, USA	Caroline SEVIN Nationality: French Vice-presidente MD Pediatric Neurology Leukodystrophy Reference Center Pediatric Neurology department Bicêtre Hospital Kremelin-Bicètre, France	Elena AMBROSINI Nationality: Italian PhD Neurobiology Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience Instituto Superiore di Sanità Rome, Italy
Enrico BERTINI Nationality: Italian MD Professor of Pediatric Neurology Head of the Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative disease unit Laboratory of Molecular Medicine Ospedale Bambino Gesu Research Hospital Rome, Italy	Nathalie CARTIER Nationality: French MD Director of research INSERM Institut for Brain and Spine (ICM) La Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital Paris, France	Raul ESTEVEZ Nationality: Spanish PhD Professor of Physiolog University of Barcelona Barcelona, Spain
Samuel GROESCHEL Nationality: German MD, PhD Pediatric Neurology University Children’s Hospital Tuebingen, Germany	David HUNT Nationality: English MD, PhD Molecular Biology and Inflammatory Diseases University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK	Stephan KEMP Nationality: Dutch PhD Academic Medical Center Principal Investigator Genetic Metabolic Diseases Department University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Wolfgang KOEHLER Nationality: German MD Clinical neurology MZEB University Hospital Leipzig Leipzig, Germany	Yann NADJAR Nationality: French MD, PhD Neurologist Neuro-Genetics and Metabolism Lysosomal Diseases Reference Center La Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital Paris, France	David ROWITCH Nationality: American MD, PhD, ScD Pediatric Neurology Professor and Head of Department University of Cambridge Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics and Neurosurgery, UCSF Cambridge, UK
Jacqueline TROTTER Nationality: German PhD Professor of Cell Biology Department of Biology University of Mainz Mainz, Germany	Adeline VANDERVER Nationality: American MD Neurology Programm Director of the Leukodystrophy Center of Excellence The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA, USA	Nicole WOLF Nationality: Dutch MD, PhD Pediatric Neurology, Neurosciences Neurology Center for Childhood White Matter Disorders VUmc – VU University Medical Center Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands