About the author

Massimo Pandolfo

Massimo Pandolfo graduated in medicine from the University of Milan, Italy, where he also did his postgraduate training in neurology. Neurogenetics soon became his principal area of clinical and research interest. He made a major contribution to the identification of the mutated gene in Friedreich ataxia. He participated in the mapping and cloning of several genes involved in neurogenetic disorders, and also in the functional characterization of these genes and the development of novel therapeutics. He was Assistant Professor at the National Neurological Institute in Milan, and later in the Department of Neurology of Baylor College of Medicine, TX, USA. He was then appointed Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Montreal, Canada. He is now Chief of the Department of Neurology at the major teaching hospital of the Free University of Brussels, Belgium.