Ferdinando Squitieri

Ferdinando Squitieri is an Italian Neurologist with a PhD in Neurobiology. He has been studing and treating patients with HD and juvenile onset HD (JoHD) over the last 35 years. He is co-founder and CSO of Lega Italiana Ricerca Huntington (LIRH) Foundation, Qrare and Associated Researcher of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Rome. He is Head of the Huntington and Rare Diseases Unit at at CSS-Mendel Institute Rome, branch of Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo Sofferenza Research Hospital in San Giovanni Rotondo. His main line of research focuses on: Huntington disease, Juvenile and Pediatric - onset Huntington disease, polyglutamine diseases, molecular genetics, genetic counseling and clinics of Huntington and related diseases. He serves as Principal Investigator for many international, clinical observational (e.g. ENROLL-HD, HDClarity, RAREST-JHD, HealthE-RND/Telemedicine) and therapeutic trials.