Scientific Committee
Its members
The scientific committee of ELA International has 15 members, experts in leukodystrophies. It is chaired by Florian Eichler, Medical Neurologist Director of the Department of Leukodystrophies at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children – Boston, USA.
Nicole Wolf, neuropediatrician doctor at the VU University Medical Center of Amsterdam – Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is the Vice President of the committee.
The scientific committee is renewed. Today Assumpció Bosch joins the committee, she is an expert in preclinical gene therapy for diseases affecting the nervous system and also Director of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UAB – Barcelona, Spain and Aurora Pujol, Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience, Medical and Laboratory Geneticist and Director of the Neurometabolic Diseases Lab at IDIBELL – Barcelona, Spain.
Ukraine – ELA Scientific committee statement
“The European Leukodystrophy Association international scientific advisory board wishes to express its concern and sympathy for people and families affected by leukodystrophy and the war in Ukraine. We understand the great difficulty of taking care of children with rare disease, especially without access to proper hospital care or medicines.
Our board members will endeavour to provide direct medical support to refugees as well as hospitals and healthcare providers in the region that can benefit from specialist medical advice on care of leukodystrophy patients.
This is a time of empathy and unity for all people and families affected by leukodystrophy”
Florian EICHLER
President MD – Nationality: American
Pediatric and Adult Neurology Director of the Leukodystrophy Service Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, United States
Nicole WOLF
Vice-presidente MD, PhD – Nationality: Deutch
Pediatric Neurology Neurosciences Neurology Center for Childhood White Matter Disorders VUmc – VU University Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Elena AMBROSINI
PhD – Nationality: Italian
Neurobiology Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Rome, Italy
Enrico BERTINI
MD – Nationality: Italian
Professor of Pediatric Neurology
Head of the Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative disease unit Laboratory of Molecular Medicine Ospedale Bambino Gesù Research Hospital
Rome, Italy
Alessandra BIFFI
MD – Nationality: Italian
Professor of Pediatrics Chief, Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant Division Padua University Hospital
Italy
Annette BLEY
MD – Nationality: German
Head of Leukodystrophies Pediatric Clinic Hamburg University Medical Center
Germany
Assumpció BOSCH
PhD – Nationality: Spanish
Full professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Principal Investigator at the Institute of Neurosciences and director of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Institute of Neurosciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Spain
Samuel GROESCHEL
MD, PhD – Nationality: German
Pediatric Neurology University Children’s Hospital
Tuebingen, Germany
David HUNT
MD, PhD – Nationality: English
Molecular Biology and Inflammatory Diseases University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Stephan KEMP
PhD – Nationality: Deutch
Academic Medical Center Principal Investigator Genetic Metabolic Diseases Department University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Wolfgang KOEHLER
MD – Nationality: German
Clinical neurology MZEB University Hospital Leipzig
Germany
Françoise PIGUET
PhD – Nationality: French
Head of GENOV, Innovation Unit of Gene and cell Therapy at Paris Brain Institute (ICM)
France
Aurora PUJOL
MD, PhD – Nationality: Spanish
Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience
ICREA Professor, Medical and Laboratory Geneticist, FACMG and Director of the Neurometabolic Diseases Lab at IDIBELL
Barcelona, Spain
David ROWITCH
MD, PhD, ScD – Nationality: American
Pediatric Neurology
Professor and Head of Department University of Cambridge Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics and Neurosurgery, UCSF Cambridge, United Kingdom
Adeline VANDERVER
MD – Nationality: American
Neurology Program Director of the Leukodystrophy Center of Excellence The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
United States