Prof. Dr. Philip Van Damme

Prof. Dr. Philip Van Damme (MD, PhD) is a professor of neurology at University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium, where he leads the Neuromuscular Reference Center. After training in neurology at KU Leuven and completing a PhD on ALS mechanisms, he continued his research with a fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, in 2008. Since 2009 he has been a neuromuscular specialist at UZ Leuven and a professor at KU Leuven. He leads the ALS programme, focusing on diagnosis, treatment and clinical trials, and chairs the EAN guideline panel on ALS.

Van Damme is a principal investigator at the Laboratory of Neurobiology at KU Leuven and the VIB Center for Brain & Disease Research, researching ALS genetic modifiers and disease pathways in stem cell models. He has published more than 200 papers on ALS and neuromuscular disorders.