Marta Campagnolo obtained her Master’s Degree in Medicine in 2008 and her Residency in Neurology in 2017, both from the University of Padova. She was a Research Fellow at the Center for Autonomic and Peripheral Nerve Disorders at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, and in 2021 she was awarded her PhD in Translational Specialistic Medicine ‘G.B. Morgagni’, Neuroscience curriculum, at the University of Padova. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Neurology (RTDa) at the Department of Neuroscience.

Her research activity focuses on identifying possible biological markers for the early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, specifically blood and CSF biomarkers, and their possible correlations with clinical and neuropsychological profiles. Moreover, Marta has been studying the pathological deposition of different proteins (e.g. alpha-synuclein, tau) in specific tissues (e.g. skin and gastrointestinal system), and the concomitant immunological changes occurring in the tissue. These projects, together with the evaluation of non-invasive techniques such as Optical Coherence Tomography, aim to identify specific patterns supporting the differential diagnosis of different conditions, including Parkinson’s disease and atypical parkinsonisms such as Multiple System Atrophy, as well as and other neurodegenerative disorders (e.g. Alzheimer’s disease).