Serena Gasperini

Dr Serena Gasperini obtained her degree in Medicine in 1994 at the University of Florence, where she specialized in Pediatrics in 2000. She worked as physician since 2004 till 2011 in Metabolic and Neuromuscular disorders Unit and afterwards in Pediatric Neurology Department at Meyer Children Hospital in Florence; since 2011 she worked at Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori in Monza. She is involved in expanded newborn screening in Italy (Florence and Monza) since 2004 and participated to many clinical trials (especially for lysosomal storage disorders) as principal investigator.
She participated to many Advisory Board at national and international levels as speaker or consultant, she is preceptorship at Italian Master in inborn errors of metabolism. She is also author/coauthor of many publications.
Since 2017 she is Head of Metabolic Rare Diseases Unit, Fondazione Mariani at Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori in Monza.
Serena Gasperini participate to some projects on translational medicine about Mucopolysaccharidosis I and Pompe disease in collaboration with Fondazione Tettamanti (Prof. Marta Serafini). The research field has extended to many hereditary metabolic disorders (mainly lysosomal diseases) including availability to perform phase 1 clinical trial.