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Biographical Details

Maja Di Rocco, MD, is Head of the Unit of Rare Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, at the IRCCS Gaslini, Genoa, Italy, and a professor of metabolic diseases at the Postgraduate Schools of Pediatrics, Medical Genetics, and Pediatric Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Genoa. She graduated in medicine and surgery from the University of Genoa in 1979, before completing a postgraduate degree in paediatrics in 1983, and in paediatric neurology and psychiatry in 1987, at the same institution. In 1986 she completed a fellowship in the Department of Neurology at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Her research interests include the biochemical and molecular bases of inborn errors of metabolism, the treatment of lysosomal diseases, and the molecular bases of genetic diseases. She is a member of several national and international societies for Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Genetics and published over 160 original articles on metabolic and genetic matter in peer-reviewed journals.