Professor Fayçal Hentati has directed the Department of Neurology and the Neurobiology laboratory at the National Institute of Neurology (INN) in Tunis (Tunisia) since 1995. He is also the past president of the Medical Council of this Institute. He has been a Professor of Neurology at the faculty of medicine of Tunis since 1990. His training was spent within the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis (Tunisia), Bicetre and Salpétrière hospitals in Paris (France), and Mass General Hospital in Boston (USA). With his group he has been involved in the study of prevalent hereditary neurological diseases in Tunisia for more than 25 years, and has contributed to the description of new genetic entities such as juvenile ALS, ataxia with vitamin E deficiency and limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2I. His research has lead to gene identification of numerous hereditary diseases frequent or specifically encountered in Tunisia (LGMD2C, ALSIN, CMT4A). Various national and international agencies such as American Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), Association Française contre les Myopathies (AFM), and the European commission have funded this research. Professor Fayçal Hentati has authored more than 130 scientific publications and is a member of the Editorial board of several scientific journals. He is president of the Tunisian Association of Neurosciences and member numerous scientific associations. He is a TWAS fellow since 2000 and obtained the first Biotechnology Presidential prize (Tunisia) in 2002, the “Gaetano Conte" prize “(Italy) in 2001, and is nominated “Chevalier of the Order of National Merit of Tunisia in Education and Sciences” since 1998.