Bart van de Warrenburg

Bart van de Warrenburg is professor of Neurology and medical lead of the expert center for rare and genetic movement disorders at Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He did a PhD on autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias and, after his neurology residency, was a movement disorders fellow at Queen Square, London, UK. He is a former visiting professor at UKM Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As research group leader, Van de Warrenburg does translational research into rare movement disorders, with a strong focus on ataxias, and current efforts center around trial-readiness and the development and testing of therapies for these disorders. He is currently chair of the MDS Ataxia Study Group and of the Ataxia-ACT (Advisory Committee Therapeutics) for the Ataxia Global Initiative, and member of various national and international ataxia research consortia.