Vincenzo Silani is Professor of Neurology and Director of the Department of Neuroscience and Laboratory of Neuroscience at the IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano – University of Milan Medical School. Director of the “Dino Ferrari” Center for Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disease in Auxologico since 2002, he was post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Neurology at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA (1979-1981), and then Visiting Professor of Neurology at Baylor (1999). He was co-chairman (2002-2005) and chairman (2005-2007) of the European ALS Consortium (EALSC); co-director of the European Academy of Neurology Subspeciality Panel for ALS and Frontotemporal Dementia (2003-2019); elected as FEAN and FAAN. He is internationally recognized as a leading scientist in ALS/FTD and he established an ALS/FTD Centre in Milan with a large database of familiar and sporadic cases.