Riccardo Privolizzi | Senior Research Fellow and Associate Lecturer
University College London

I am a Senior Research Fellow in the Genetic Therapy Accelerator Centre (GTAC) at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, where I closely collaborate with the GTAC AAV research team and the Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre (DNC), at the Great Ormond Street UCL Institute of Child Health (GOS-ICH). I co-supervise a team of postdoctoral and doctoral fellows, and research assistants. I am also an Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health (IfWH), where I was awarded a PhD in Neurological Gene Therapy in 2022. I am an Associate Lecturer in Gene Therapy at the UCL GOS-ICH, EGA IfWH and Division of Surgery and Interventional Science. I specialised in the characterisation of novel synthetic promoters and translational AAV gene therapy of a mouse model of infantile parkinsonism-dystonia. I have a keen interest in the identification and development of novel gene regulatory elements for selective targeting of specific cell types, and I am passionate about teaching and science communication.