New mentees selected for the ENMC Mid-Career Mentoring programme

In the fifth call for the ENMC Mid-Career Mentoring Programme with the deadline July 2025, we received eight applications! Following interviews with each of the candidates, the ENMC Mentoring Programme Committee presented their recommendations to the Research- and Executive Committees. We are very happy to announce that six mentee candidates were selected for the programme:

  • Teresa Gerhalter, PhD, senior scientist at Department of Neurology at the Medical University of Graz, Austria.
  • Clara Gontijo Camelo, MD, PhD, pediatric neurologist at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Felix Kleefeld, MD, PhD, neurologist at the BG University Hospital Bergmannsheil in Bochum, Germany.
  • Mauro Monforte, MD, PhD, neurologist and group leader at the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, and a researcher at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, Italy.
  • Karlien Mul, MD, PhD, neurologist at Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  • Rhonda Taylor, PhD, researcher at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Perth, Australia.

More information about this programme, follow this link.

New ENMC Research Committee Members

On 1 July 2025, the ENMC welcomed two new Research Committee (RC) members, Prof. Kristl Claeys (Laboratory for Muscle Diseases and Neuropathies, UZ Leuven, Belgium) and Prof. Charlotte Handberg (National Rehabilitation Center for Neuromuscular Diseases (RCFM), Aarhus, Denmark). On 13 November, the RC came together for the autumn Research Committee meeting held at the World Trade Center Schiphol, the Netherlands to discuss the recent submitted workshop applications.