Bio:

Dr Francesca Magrinelli is a neurologist and postdoctoral researcher at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London (UCL), where she was awarded the prestigious MJFF Edmond J. Safra Clinical Research Fellowship in Movement Disorders in 2021. She trained in Neurology at the University of Verona, Italy. She spent three of four years of her PhD on clinicogenetic correlations in combined and complex dystonia under the supervision of Prof. Kailash Bhatia and Prof. Henry Houlden at UCL. She works as a clinical assistant at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, and as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Houlden’s neurogenetics at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. Her main research interests focus on the clinical, genetic and translational aspects of monogenic movement disorders, with dedication to gene discovery, deep phenotyping, genotype-phenotype correlations, and experimental approaches towards precision medicine for Parkinson’s disease, complex parkinsonism, dystonia and non-Huntington disease chorea. She has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles on these topics. She recently identified a new gene for early-onset Parkinson’s disease/parkinsonism and was awarded the MJFF Edmond J. Safra Movement Disorders Research Career Development Award 2023 for her preliminary research on this gene.