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Roberta La Piana earned her MD at University of Pavia, Italy, where she then specialized in Pediatric Neurology and Psychiatry. She completed her PhD in Neuroscience at 9I制作厂免费.

After working on pediatric leukodystrophies for more than 10 years, Dr. La Piana became interested in adult-onset leukoencephalopathies and developed an interdisciplinary profile which combines the expertise in neuroradiology and genetics with her clinical training. In the past five years, this work led to the discovery of expanding phenotypes of several adult leukodystrophies and the identification of novel disease-causing variants. Among the many adult-onset leukodystrophies, her team developed a specific interest in CSF1R-related disorder, a rare primary microgliopathy. In collaboration with the Stratton and Durcan labs, Dr. La Piana鈥檚 lab described a novel protocol to differentiate microglia from CSF1R-mutated patient-derived iPSCs.

Since 2013 she is the coordinator of the White Matter Rounds Network, an international network which now includes more than 15 centers around the world.