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Antonio Orlacchio, MD, PhD, is Director of the Medical Genetics Section of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, and Associate Professor of Human Genetics in the same Institution. Formerly, he was Director of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics of the European Center for Brain Research, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy and Aggregate Professor of Neurology at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy. He graduated in Medicine and got Board certification in Neurology from the University of Perugia and was awarded the title of Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". He did his post-doc in Canada at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Canada, and since 2001 he returned to Italy. He has received numerous awards and honors at national and international level, including the European Neurological Society Award, the "San Valentino d'Oro", and the honor of the Chamber of Commerce of Perugia. Dr. Orlacchio has expertise in the application of advanced molecular genetic techniques for understanding the pathogenesis of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia, Alzheimer's disease , Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and other neurodegenerative diseases and use of that knowledge for clinical problems affecting patients with these diseases. He is the Principal Investigator in many research projects at national and international level and he published more than 300 articles, including a large part of peer-reviewed manuscripts. In 2010, he has identified the gene causing a form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS5), in 2012 the gene producing a variant of hereditary spastic paraplegia (SPG12), and in 2016 the gene causing a form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT2X).
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