Pasquale Striano is a Full Professor of Pediatrics at IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini. He is also a member of the Board of the Italian League Against Epilepsy (LICE) and an associate partner of
the EUROEPINOMICS consortium for the study of genetic epilepsies through next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques. In London in November 2012 he was awarded by the ILAE the Young Investigator Award at the European Congress of Epileptology. His main field of interest is the molecular genetics of idiopathic epilepsies, with a special interest in the clinical assessment of children with epilepsy and genotype–phenotype relationships. As a board-certified neurologist and pediatric neurologist, he has conducted translational studies on different forms of genetic epilepsies and participated in clinical trials of
antiepileptic drugs in patients affected by such seizure disorders.
Stephanie Efthymiou graduated from Imperial College as a biologist and also spent a year at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Lyon, France, investigating the pathogenesis of viruses like Ebola and Marburg. She completed a master’s degree in the Pathology of Viruses and Molecular Biology of Viruses at Imperial College London, London, UK, in 2014, and a Ph.D. in Neurogenetics at University College London, London, UK. She is currently an ICGNMD Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department
of Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London, working on the genetic and functional characterization of rare early onset neuromuscular and neurodevelopmental disorders in underrepresented populations.
