
Andrea Ballabio
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About
Andrea Ballabio is an Italian physician-scientist best known for founding the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM) and for his research on lysosomal biology, autophagy, and rare genetic disease. He is Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Naples Federico II, has held senior academic roles at Baylor College of Medicine, and is a co-founder and scientific advisor of Casma Therapeutics. The search results also contain likely namesake collisions, but the official bios consistently identify this Andrea Ballabio as the senior biomedical researcher and biotech scientific founder.
Areas of interest
autophagylysosomal biologyrare genetic diseasesneurodegenerative diseasetranslational medicinegene therapydrug discoveryhuman geneticsbiotech