Senior VP, Translational Sciences

Giulio Tomassy is our Senior Vice President of Translational Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Cellular and Developmental Biology from the University of Rome, where he studied the expression and function of the cholinergic system in the dorsal root ganglia neurons. During his postdoctoral work he studied at Telethon institute of Genetics and Medicine in Naples and at Harvard University; during those years, he contributed to deciphering several aspects of the development of the cerebral cortex, including a seminal work that discovered a cell subtype-specific interaction between oligodendrocytes and projection neurons in shaping cortical myelination. Since then, he’s worked in CNS drug development at Biogen and Sanofi where, among other things, he led the IND-enabling preclinical work for Tofersen (SOD1 ASO), BIIB078 (C9orf72 ASO) as well as a novel AAV-based gene therapy for Myotonic Dystrophy.