Country
Italy
Piero Parchi is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Director of the Program on the Neuropathology of Neurodegenerative diseases at the Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna, Italy. Professor Parchi received his M.D. and residency titles in Neurology and Anatomic Pathology from the University of Bologna and his Ph.D. in Neurosciences from the University of Verona, Italy.
Since 1993 he has primarily conducted research studies on the molecular basis of phenotypic variability in human prion disease, initially at the Division of Neuropathology, Institute of Pathology, CWRU, in Cleveland, USA, and then in Italy. The results of his work have significantly contributed to the characterization of human prion strains and the current classification of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease variants.
Since 2015 he has expanded his research interests to the clinical validation of pathology-driven biofluid biomarkers for the early diagnosis of prion diseases and Lewy body disorders, exploiting novel ultrasensitive seed amplification assays to detect misfolded prion and alpha-synuclein.
