Prof. Ferdinando Squitieri is a neurologist and neurogeneticist with a Ph.D in neurobiology and Head of the Huntington and Rare Diseases Unit at CSS-Mendel Institute in Rome, a branch of IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Research Hospital. He is also co-founder and scientific officer of the Lega Italiana Ricerca Huntington (LIRH) Foundation and Research Associate of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Rome. He is a principal investigator of many therapeutic and observational trials of Huntington disease.