_Principal Investigator, TIGEM and Professor of Medical Genetics

Sandro Banfi obtained his Medical Degree and undertook his Neurology Residency at the University of Naples “Federico II”. In 1991, he moved to the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine where he worked on a post-doctoral project aimed at the elucidation of the genetic basis of Spinocerebellar Ataxias. In 1995, he moved back to Italy where he joined TIGEM as an independent investigator and shifted his research focus to data mining and functional genomics approaches in order to identify biologically relevant genes with potential roles in disease pathogenesis. In 2019, he became Full Professor of Medical Genetics at University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. He is also coordinator of the PhD program in Human Genetics at TIGEM in affiliation with the UK Open University. Sandro Banfi has made significant contributions to the definition of the molecular basis of Inherited Retinal Diseases and to the identification and characterization of a number of genes, both coding and noncoding, endowed with relevant roles in retinal biology.