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Maria Laura Feltri (died December 2023) was a widely respected scholar and a member of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences faculty, she was a SUNY Distinguished Professor of biochemistry and neurology in the Jacobs School and director of UB’s Institute for Myelin and Glia Exploration.
Her research focused on multiple sclerosis; Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, which affects the peripheral nerves; and Krabbe leukodystrophy, a rare, fatal neurological disease that afflicts newborns.”
Feltri was an internationally renowned pioneer in the study and treatment of Myelin diseases in the nervous system. She made numerous seminal discoveries in her field, including developing the first mutagenesis tool for studying the development of Schwann cells, which generate myelin, and the signals that regulate myelination.
Dr. Feltri was a Professor of Biochemistry and Neurology at the Institute for Myelin and Glia Exploration in the State University of New York at Buffalo and Director of the Institute. Before 2011, she was the Head of the Unit of NeuroGlia in the San Raffaele Scientific Institute of Milano, and adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania.