Corrado Angelini is a Full Professor of neurology at the University of Padova, Italy, where he also serves as the coordinator of the PhD program of neurosciences and Director of the Neurology Residency Program and the Department of Neurosciences Neuromuscular Center. Dr. Angelini earned his medical degree from the University of Padova and completed two fellowships with the Muscular Dystrophy Association, a research fellowship in 1972 at the Mayo Clinic, and a senior fellowship in 1978 at the University of California, Los Angeles. From 1978 to 1979, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of neurology at the Reed Neurological Research Center, UCLA Medical School. In 1984, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado, Denver and the University of Boston. His major research interests are primary biochemical defects in inherited neuromuscular diseases, clinical trials, muscle dystrophies, FSHD, LGMD, BMD, DMD, ALS, myasthenia gravis, congenital muscle diseases, carnitine and lipid metabolism, glycogenosis, biomarkers in metabolic and mitochondrial disorders, hypoxia, and high-altitude effects in neurological disorders.