Elena Abati MD PhD

Neurologist
Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
Milan, Italy

Dr. Abati works on neuromuscular diseases and headache disorders. She completed a PhD Program in Translational Medicine of the University of Milan in the Neural Stem Cell Lab of Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico (PI Prof. Stefania Corti).

Dr. Elena Abati completed her Medical

Training at the University of Milan; she graduated in 2016, summa cum laude, with a thesis titled "Generation and characterization of oligodendrocytes from IPSC of patients with multiple system atrophy". She specialized in neurology at the University of Milan in 2022, summa cum laude, with a thesis titled "Evaluation of a combined gene therapy and gene silencing technique for the treatment of Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2A”. She also worked as a research intern at the Herscot Center of Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University in 2015. In 2021, she worked as a research fellow at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences of the University of Oxford, with a project aimed at the characterisation of IPSC-derived pericytes from diabetic patients.

Dr. Elena Abati specializes in the management and treatment of neuromuscular and headache diseases. Her research interests focus on the development of novel therapeutic approaches using neural stem cells, 2D- and 3D-IPSC-based models, gene therapy-based approaches, and serum-based biomarker studies.

Since 2021, she has been a member of the Management Group of the Scientific Panel for Neurosciences and of the Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN).
She has also been also Academic Senator at the University of Milan from 2021 to 2024.