Maurizio PocchiariProfessor Maurizio Pocchiari is a neurologist working at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy, where chairs the Department of Neuroscience. He heads a group of neurologists, geneticists, biochemists, and statisticians working on various aspets of human and experimental prion diseases. These include studies on clinical and molecular epidemiology, diagnosis, pathogenesis, experimental therapy, biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology of the prion protein and the prion protein gene, development of new techniques for the inactivation of prions, and the analysis of risk in transmitting prions from animal-to-human or from human-to-human. Professor Pocchiari runs the Italian Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance unit since 1993 and is a member of the Coordination Committee of the European Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Surveillance Network (EuroCJD) of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Read More Read Less