Jessica Mandrioli, prof.

In 2007, Prof. Mandrioli became the chief of the Multidisciplinary Centre for MND in Modena, Italy. She established and has been coordinating the population-based ALS Registry in Modena since 2000, and extended this effort to the Emilia Romagna region (population 4.4 million) in 2009. From 2013 to 2017, she served as the coordinator of the Italian Study Group on MND.

Prof. Mandrioli has conducted several population-based studies on ALS and has participated in numerous pharmacological clinical trials. In collaboration with the ITALSGEN Consortium, she has contributed to seminal international multicentric efforts that led to the discovery of new ALS-related genes. She has also led national non-profit clinical trials aimed at finding a cure for ALS, with her work being funded by multiple national competitive grants. Her research has been published in over 180 peer-reviewed scientific journals and is widely cited by the scientific community.