Francesco Muntoni

"Francesco Muntoni is a Professor of Paediatric Neurologist and the Director of the Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK. In the Institute and hospital he led the Novel Therapies Programme of the Biomedical Research Centre and between 2008 and 2022 and also led the Developmental Neuroscience Programme between 2008 and 2018. Since 2008 he is the co-director of the MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases at UCL. Muntoni has an interest in pathogenesis, deep phenotyping, gene identification for rare neuromuscular conditions and translational research in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy and congenital myopathies. He is involved in several natural history studies and clinical trials. His research funded by the Department of Health, MRC and the European commission lead to the development and early clinical trials of 2 morpholino antisense oligonucleotides, now a