Name: Emilia Vitale, PhD

Title: Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Director of the Human Gene Mapping Program

Background: Emilia Vitale received her Ph.D. in 1982 from the University of Naples, Italy in the field of Biological Science. She did her post-doctoral training in the same institution in the Department of Genetics, General and Molecular Biology from 1982 to 1985 and a second fellowship at the Gaslini Childrens Hospital, Dept of Human Molecular Genetics in Genova, Italy from 1985 to 1989. In the United States, Dr. Vitale was appointed Research Coordinator at the Mount Sinai Medical School - Brookdale Center for Molecular Biology in New York and served as a Research Scientist in the Department of Molecular Genetics of Columbia University in New York City.

Dr. Vitale has been with the New Jersey Medical School in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics since 1994, as an Assistant Professor. She directs the Human Gene Mapping Program of the Center for Human and Molecular Genetics. Dr. Vitale also serves as an Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at the CNR Institute of Cybernetics in Arco Felice, Italy. Language: fluent in Italian.

Professional Interests and Activities: Dr. Vitale's major areas of research interest include applied genomics in biomedical research and gene mapping in neurological diseases. She has published studies regarding Ehlers-Danlos, Marfan syndrome, spinal muscular atrophy, Wilson disease, deafness, situs inversus, mental retardation syndromes and multiple sclerosis. Additonally, she serves as an instructor for the first year medical student course in human genetics and the master of science program at the New Jersey Medical School.

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