Dr Alessandro P. Burlina is Director of the Neurological Unit at the San Bassiano Hospital, Bassano del Grappa, and former Adult Neurologist Consultant at the Inherited Metabolic Disease Unit of the University Hospital of Padua, Italy. Since 1995, he has held positions at the Centre for Neurochemistry (Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, New York University), the Department of Neurology (Yale University School of Medicine) and the Department of Biophysical Chemistry (Biocentre of the University of Basel). He is interested in the clinical and neurochemical aspects of inherited neurometabolic diseases in adulthood. His current research is focused on neurological findings of Fabry disease and phenylketonuria. He has published many peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on inherited metabolic diseases.