Alessandra Ferlini is an MD and received degrees in Medical Genetics from the University of Ferrara and in Neurology from the University of Bologna. She completed her PhD in Genetics at Imperial College, London. She works as an associate professor in medical genetics, as the director of the Medical Genetics Unit at the University of Ferrara (Italy), and as an honorary visiting professor at University College of London. She also serves as a member of several genetics and neuromuscular disease research and care networks, including the TREAT-NMD Alliance and the European NeuroMuscularCentre, and coordinates/coordinated several EU projects, such as Screen4Care. Her research interests include genomic studies and novel molecular therapies for genetic and rare diseases.