Laurent Servais, MD, PhD
Board Member
Professor of Paediatric Neuromuscular Diseases at the MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre and Invited Professor of Child Neurology at Liège University.
MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Center, Specialised Translational Research Oxford Neuromuscular Group: STRONG
Dr. Servais is a paediatrician - MD graduated in 1999. His PhD was about cerebellar electrophysiology in mice cerebellum- including in "Angelmice". He trained as a child Neurologist in Paris- at the Hospital Robert Debré and as a myologist at the Institute of Myology-La Pitié-Salpêtrière. He has co-founded and led Institute I-Motion where he was Assistant Professor until 2019. He is now a professor of Paediatric Neuromuscular Diseases at the University of Oxford since 2018 and Professor of Child Neurology at the University of Liege-Belgium. His main research interests cover innovative outcome measures and clinical trials design and newborn screening (NBS). He has been involved as Principal Investigator in several clinical trials in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), Angelman syndrome X-linked myotubular myopathy, and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). He is leading the NBS program for SMA NBS in Belgium and in the UK and the pioneering genomic NBS program Babydetect. He is the coordinating investigator of two large natural history studies in Angelman in the UK and in Belgium that aims to identify and validates innovative outcome measures and biomarkers.