Prof. Sandro Banfi is an Associate Investigator at the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM). He obtained his M.D. from the University of Naples in 1989. Then, he got Board-Certified in Neurology from the University of Naples in 1993. In 1994, he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Baylor College of Medicine. In addition, he is a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) and the American Society for Human Genetics. His scientific interest aims at the efficient exploitation of public sequence and gene expression databases to identify genes, either coding or non-coding, of high biological interest and possibly involved in the pathogenesis of human-eye inherited disorders.