Global Contributors

UK (including ICGNMD Head Office)

UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (UCL IoN), London, UK

• Principal Investigators: Professor Michael G Hanna, Professor Mary M Reilly, Professor Henry Houlden, Dr Robert D S Pitceathly, Dr Gita Ramdharry
• Fellows: Dr William L Macken, Dr Christopher Record
• Co-Investigators: Dr Enrico Bugiardini, Dr Matilde Laura, Dr Alexander Rossor, Dr Chiara Pizzamiglio, Dr Vinojini Vivekanandam, Professor Antonella Spinazzola
• Other contributing staff: Dr Lindsay A Wilson, Tamara Hill, Dr Heba Morsy, Dr Stephanie Efthymiou, Ms Natalia Dominik

UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS-ICH), London, UK

• Principal Investigators: Professor Francesco Muntoni, Dr Anna Sarkozy, Professor Thomas Voit
• Fellows: Dr Luke Perry

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

• Principal Investigators: Professor Patrick Chinnery, Professor Rita Horvath
• Fellows: Dr Katherine R Schon
• Other contributing staff: Dr Fei Gao

University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

• Principal Investigators: Professor Volker Straub, Professor Robert McFarland, Professor Robert Taylor
• Fellows: Dr Mahmoud Fassad, Dr Christina Trainor
• Co-Investigators: Dr Ana Topf

Brazil

Da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo (FAEPA), São Paulo

• Principal Investigators: Professor Wilson Marques Jr
• Faculty PI Fellow (senior role): Dr Pedro Tomaselli
• PhD Fellows: Dr Rodrigo Frezatti, (Alumnus: Dr Lucas Clementino)
• Faculty Member: Dr Claudia Sobreira

India

CSIR Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad

• Principal Investigators: Professor Kumarasamy Thangaraj
• Other contributing staff: Dr Pratheusa Machha, Dr G Mala

Centre for DNA Diagnostics and Fingerprinting (CDFD), Hyderabad

• Principal Investigators: Professor Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Dr Ashwin Dalal

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi

• Principal Investigators: Professor MV Padma Srivastava, Professor Rohit Bhatia
• Principal Investigator & Faculty PI Fellow: Dr Vishnu V Y
• Other contributing staff: Ms Alisha Reyaz

National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore

Neuropathology Group:

• Principal Investigator & Faculty PI Fellow: Dr Nandeesh BN
• Co - Principal Investigator: Dr Narayanappa Gayathri,
• Faculty PI Fellow (senior role): Dr Madhu Nagappa
• Other contributing staff: Dr Periyasamy Govindaraj, Ms Shivani Sharma, Dr. AB Taly, Dr. Yasha TC

Neurology Group:

• Principal Investigators: Dr Atchayaram Nalini
• Co-Investigators: Dr Seena Vengalil, Dr Nashi Saraswati
• Other contributing staff: Dr Gautham Arunachal

Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), Hyderabad

• Principal Investigator: Dr Sireesha Yareeda
• Other contributing staff: Dr Suryaprabha Turaga, Dr Buggoju Vijay Kumar, Mr Nagu Bhukya

The Netherlands

Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden

• Principal Investigators: Dr Richard JLF Lemmers, Professor Dr Ir Silvère M van der Maarel

South Africa

North-West University, Potchefstroom

• Principal Investigator: Professor Francois van der Westhuizen
• Other contributing staff: Ms Michelle Mereis, Dr Maryke Schoonen

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Steve Biko Academic Hospital, University of Pretoria, Pretoria

• Principal Investigator: Professor Izelle Smuts
• Other contributing staff: Dr Ronel Human, Dr Elsa Lubbe and Dr Malebo Nonyane

Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town & Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town

• Principal Investigator: Professor Jo M Wilmshurst
• PhD Fellow: Dr Sharika Raga

Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town & Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town

• Principal Investigator: Professor Jeannine Heckmann
• PhD Fellow: Dr Kireshnee Naidu (also Stellenbosch)
• Other contributing staff: Dr Elizabeth C Steyn (Alumnus)

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town

• Principal Investigators: Dr Franclo Henning, Dr Soraya Bardien
• PhD Fellow: Dr Kireshnee Naidu (also Cape Town)

Turkey

Yeditepe University Hospitals, Istanbul

• Principal Investigator: Professor Haluk A Topoloğlu
• Other contributing staff: Dr Gökçe Eser

Ankara City Hospital & Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara

• PhD Fellow: Dr Özlem Yayıcı Köken
• Co-Investigators: Assoc.Prof. Ahmet Cevdet Ceylan, Prof. C Nur Semerci Gündüz, Dr Büşranur Çavdarlı, Assoc. Prof. Gülay Güleç Ceylan
• Other contributing staff: Dr Didem Ardıçlı

Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Centre (IBG), Dokuz Eylul University Healtch Campus, Izmir & Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Medicine, Pediatric Neurology Department, Izmir

• Principal Investigators: Professor Uluç Yis & Professor Yavuz Oktay
• PhD Fellow: Dr Ipek Polat

Zambia

University Teaching Hospital (UTH), Lusaka

• Principal Investigators: Dr David Bearden, Dr Michelle Kvalsund, Dr Somwe Wa Somwe, Dr Sylvia Mwanza-Kabaghe, Dr Gretchen Birbeck.
• Professor Robert C Griggs, MD (Rochester site)
• PhD Fellow: Ms Musambo Kapapa
• Other contributing staff: Ms Milimo Mweemba, Ms Memory Chanda