Michel D. Ferrari MD, PhD, FANA, FRCP

Michel D. Ferrari, MD, Ph.D., FANA, FRCP is Professor of Neurology, Chair of the Leiden Centre for Translational Neuroscience, and member of the Permanent Science Committee at Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC). He also is President of the Dutch Headache Society and past President of the International Headache Society (IHS) and serves and has served on the executive, scientific and advisory boards of many other scientific organizations.

Prof. Ferrari is an Elected Fellow of the American Neurological Association (FANA) and the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), and an Honorary Member of the Colombian Neurology Society and the International (IHS), Danish and Italian Headache Societies. He received from the Dutch Neurological Association the five-ennial Winkler Medallion for Excellence in Neurological Research (2005) and from The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) the Vici Innovational Research Personal Incentive Schema Award (2004), the Spinoza Life Time Achievement Premium (2009), the highest science prize in The Netherlands, and the 10-year Gravity Award “Brain on a Chip” (2017) as part of the “Netherlands Organ on a Chip Initiative”.