Rate My Professor Giorgio Tasca

Professor Giorgio Tasca is Clinical Professor of Neuromuscular Science and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, a position he assumed in January 2023. He earned his residency in Neurology in 2011 and a PhD in Neuroscience in 2014 from the Catholic University School of Medicine in Rome, Italy. His postdoctoral training included research fellowships at the Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics in Helsinki and the Neuromuscular Research Center at Tampere University in Finland from 2012 to 2013, as well as at the Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Bambino Gesù Children’s Research Hospital in Rome. From 2015 to 2022, Tasca served at the Unit of Neurology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS Hospital in Rome.

Tasca's research focuses on neuromuscular disorders, specializing in muscle imaging techniques, particularly MRI patterns for the diagnosis and follow-up of genetic myopathies and muscular dystrophies. His interests include facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), with investigations into imaging changes, molecular lesions, inflammatory milieu, biomarkers, and pathomechanisms; other conditions such as dystrophinopathies, distal myopathies, inclusion body myositis, and limb-girdle muscular dystrophies; applications of artificial intelligence in myopathies; and genotype-phenotype correlations in rare disorders like myofibrillar and distal myopathies. He currently leads FSHD research at the Centre. Tasca is vice-chair of the Neuromuscular Imaging group of the Euro-NMD European Reference Network, leader of the Imaging Working Group of the FSHD European Trial Network, associate editor for Neuromuscular Disorders and Frontiers in Neurology-Neuromuscular Diseases, and a member of the European Neuromuscular Center Research and Mentoring Program Committees and the Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Expert Panel of the Clinical Genome Resource Consortium. His honors include the Patricia Salustri 2015 prize from Association Amis FSH, the 2021 FSHD Society Young Investigator Award, and an Academy of Medical Sciences Professorship. Key publications comprise Natural history of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy evaluated by multiparametric quantitative MRI: a prospective cohort study (Journal of Neurology, 2025), Myo-Guide: A Machine Learning-Based Web Application for Neuromuscular Disease Diagnosis With MRI (Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2025), Muscle transcriptomics of alpha-sarcoglycanopathy highlights inflammatory pathways driving disease (Brain, 2025), Muscle Biopsy Findings in Valosin-Containing Protein Multisystem Proteinopathy (Neurology: Genetics, 2025), and Levels of exercise exposure among people living with neuromuscular disorders (Neuromuscular Disorders, 2025).