Ilham El Atiallah
- MSc Medicine and Surgery (LM-41) – Rome (taught in Italian)
- MSc Medicine and Surgery (LM-41) – Cefalù
- BSc Midwifery (L/SNT-1)
- BSc Physiotherapy (L/SNT-2)
She graduated in Medical Biotechnology and subsequently a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
She is currently a Tenure Track Researcher (RTT) at the Departmental Faculty of UniCamillus – Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences in Rome.
Her main research activities focus on the study of the anatomy and neurophysiology of the basal ganglia in movement disorders—particularly Parkinson’s disease and dystonia—as well as on neurodevelopment in autism, at the Neurophysiology and Plasticity Laboratory of the IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia. She collaborates on several national and international research projects.
She teaches Human Anatomy at the Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences – UniCamillus.
She was awarded a research grant at the same university within the PNRR 2022 project dedicated to studying the role of torsinA in dopaminergic signaling within the striatum–globus pallidus circuit.
She has also received several fellowships at the Neurophysiology and Plasticity Laboratory of the IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia and at the Department of Systems Medicine of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where she carried out postdoctoral research.