Clinical Professor of Neuromuscular Science
Giorgio Tasca is Professor of Neuromuscular Science at the John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre, Newcastle University, since January 2023.
He received my residency in Neurology in 2011 and completed a PhD in Neuroscience in 2014 at the Catholic University School of Medicine in Rome, Italy. In 2012-2013 he was a research fellow at the Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics, Helsinki and at the Neuromuscular Research Center, Tampere University, Finland, and later on at the Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders of the Bambino Gesù Children’s Research Hospital, Rome. From 2015 to 2022 he worked at the Unit of Neurology of the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “A. Gemelli” IRCCS Hospital in Rome.
He is vice-chair of the Neuromuscular Imaging group of the Euro-NMD project (European Reference Network), Associate Editor of the journals Neuromuscular Disorders and Frontiers in Neurology-Neuromuscular Diseases, and leader of the Imaging Working group of the FSHD European Trial Network. He also is a current member of the Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Expert Panel of the Clinical Genome Resource Consortium, and of the European Neuromuscular Center (ENMC) Research and Mentoring Program Committees. Finally, I have recently been awarded an Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) Professorship.