Made up of internationally renowned scientists, the Committee’s task is to ensure that Telethon funds are assigned to the most promising projects from among those submitted in response to our calls for proposals. It also participates in the evaluation of the scientific projects of our Institutes.
Our Scientific Committee places excellence at the heart of every evaluation; this is the principle on which its members base their choice of which projects are worthy of funding, never overlooking the fact that those same projects must be relevant to patients’ needs and contribute towards finding a cure. Our Scientific Committee members are from all over the world and remain in office for four years.
The members of the Scientific Committee
- Beverly Davidson (CHAIR), PhD, Professor of Patology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Raymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
- Thomas Rando (VICE CHAIR), MD, PhD, Director and Professor in Neurology at the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center (Los Angeles, California, USA)
- Ahad Rahim, PhD, Professor of Translational Neuroscience, Wellcome Chair and Head of the Research Department of Pharmacology at the University College London (London, UK)
- Albert La Spada, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology at the University of California Irvine (Irvine, California, USA)
- Alysson Muotri, PhD, Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Cellular & Molecular Medicine at the University of California San Diego (San Diego, California, USA)
- Ambra Pozzi, PhD, Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at the Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee, USA)
- Angeliki Louvi, PhD, Professor of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience, and Deputy Director MD-PhD Program at Yale, School of Medicine (New Heaven, Connecticut, USA)
- Barry London, MD, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine-Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa, USA)
- Bradley Olwin, PhD, Professor Molecular cellular and developmental biology at the University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, Colorado, USA)
- Carlos Moraes, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Cell Biology and Anatomy at the Miami Miller School of Medicine (Miami, Florida, USA)
- Diane Merry, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Vice Chair, Faculty Development and Engagement at the Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
- Fabio Candotti, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Lausanne (Lausanne, Canton of Vaud, CH)
- Gonzalo Sanchez Duffhues, PhD, Group leader & "Ramon y Cajal" fellow at the Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Research Center CINN (Oviedo, Asturias, ES)
- Hans van Bokhoven, PhD, Professor Molecular Neurogenetics at Rabdoud University (Nijmegen, Gelderland, NL)
- Holger Lerche, MD, PhD, Clinical Director and Head of the Department of Neurology and Epileptology at the Hertie Institute of Clinical Brain Research at the University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, DE)
- Jacques Michaud, PhD, Director of the Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine and Professor of Pediatrics and Neurosciences at the University of Montreal (Montreal, Québec, CA)
- Jeffrey Chamberlain, PhD, Professor of Neurology and Medical Genetics at the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Washington and McCaw Chair in Muscular Dystrophy (Seattle, Washington, USA)
- Jeffrey Dilworth, PhD, Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, Wisconsin, USA)
- Lucia Notterpek, PhD, Professor/Senior Associate Dean Research, Physiology and Cell Biology at the University of Nevada Reno (Reno, Nevada, USA)
- Mauro Giacca, MD, PhD, Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences at the King’s College London (London, UK)
- Paul Gissen, PhD, Clinical Professor and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Metabolic Diseases at the University College London (London, UK)
- Paul Robbins, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota; and Co-Director of the Masonic Institute on the Biology of Aging and Metabolism (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
- Punam Malik, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati; and Chair of Gene and Cell Therapy (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
- Robert Brosh, PhD, Senior Investigator, Helicases and Genomic Integrity Section at th National Institute of Aging - NIH (Bethesda, Maryland, USA)
- Roberto Zoncu, PhD, Professor in Biochemistry, Biophysics, Structural Biology at the University of California Berkeley (Berkeley, California, USA)
- Yvan Arsenijevic, PhD, Associate Professor and Head of the Fundamental Research Pole of the unit of Retinal Degeneration and Regeneration at the University of Lausanne (Lausanne, Canton of Vaud, CH)
