Francesca Nardecchia

Francesca Nardecchia is assistant professor in Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psychiatry at Sapienza University of Rome. She studied medicine and then she obtained her consultant degree in Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psychiatry in 2014 at Sapienza University of Rome. During her consultant training she had the opportunity of spending 12 months in the Research Laboratory of Molecular Pediatrics at the Department of Inborn Errors of Metabolism, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, in Munich, Germany, with the supervision of Prof. Ania C. Muntau and Prof. Soeren Gersting.

In 2017, she completed her first PhD program in Pharmacology on the study of metabotropic glutamate receptors in a mouse model of intellectual disability supervised by Prof. Ferdinando Nicoletti, and in 2021 her second PhD in Neuroscience deepening the topic of the variability in outcome and vulnerability to phenylalanine in phenylketonuria supervised by Prof. Vincenzo Leuzzi. Currently, she is combining her role as consultant with research activity focused on the diagnosis, phenotypic and genetic characterization of neurometabolic diseases in infancy and early childhood.

Dr. Nardecchia has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals covering the topic of phenylketonuria, inborn errors of biogenic amines, and other neurometabolic disorders with special focus on treatable movement disorders.