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- Professor of Neurology
- Neuroinflammation
- UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
- Faculty of Brain Sciences
I studied Medicine at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy, where I completed my specialist training in Neurology in 1999. I then came to London with the Jacqueline Du Pre award from the MSIF. After my PhD in Neuroscience at UCL, I was awarded a Wellcome Trust Advanced Clinical Fellowship. In 2019 I was awarded a NIHR Research Professorship.
- Centre for Neurorehabilitation
- Imaging
- Inflammation & Infection
- Mechanisms of disability and recovery in MS
- Neurodegeneration
- UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging
- UCL Centre for Medical Image Computing
- UCL Centre for Neuroimaging Techniques
- UCL Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
- UCL Computational Life and Medical Sciences Network
- UCL Consortium for Mitochondrial Research
- UCL RegenMed
- UCLH/UCL Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre - NIHR




I am a NIHR Research Professor of Neurology. My research programme aims to develop a computer tool that will enable doctors to predict which medicines individuals with multiple sclerosis will respond better to. There are many licensed drugs that reduce the risk of relapses in multiple sclerosis, but doctors cannot predict which of these will work best for an individual. The decision about which drug to give to a patient is based on personal preference. Medications are changed if patients develop relapses, disability and adverse events. The goal of my research professorship is to develop a computer tool that predicts whether an individual patient will respond to a drug by taking into account all the elements that may influence treatment response, including demographic and genetic factors, blood biomarkers, MRI, diet, comorbidities and life style. We will use machine learning, which is a sub-area of artificial intelligence, to predict individual treatment responses. This crucial information will help doctors to select the most appropriate treatment for multiple sclerosis patients.
I am currently the primary supervisor of several PhD students. I regularly give lectures at national and international conferences, and have organised workshops and teaching courses at international conferences.
01-JAN-2019 | NIHR Research Professor of Neurology | Neuroinflammation | Institute of Neurology, United Kingdom |
01-OCT-2014 | Professor of Neurology | Neuroinflammation | UCL Institute of Neurology, United Kingdom |
01-OCT-2008 – 30-SEP-2014 | Reader in Neurology | Brain Repair and Rehabilitation | UCL Institute of Neurology, United Kingdom |
2004 | Doctor of Philosophy | University College London | |
1999 | Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training | Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza | |
1995 | Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery | Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza |