Giancarlo Comi is the director of the Department of Neurology–Neurorehabilitation and Clinical Neurophysiology at the Scientific Institute San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Italy. He is a professor of neurology at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele and is the chairman of its graduate school in neurology. Professor Comi is also the scientific director of the MS centres of San Raffaele Hospital, as well as the Hospital ‘S. Antonio Abate’ in Gallarate and, since December 2004, scientific director of INSPE (Institute of Experimental Neurology).

Professor Comi is an active member of various neurological societies, and is involved in steering committees and advisory boards of numerous international trials. He is currently vice president of the European Charcot Foundation, member of the executive committee of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS), and president of the European Neurological Society and the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology. In addition, he is the managing editor for Topics in Neuroscience, and a member of the editorial boards of European Neurology, Trends in Medicine, Neurological Sciences, Clinical Neurophysiology and The Lancet (Italy). Professor Comi has published more than 600 peer-reviewed papers, mostly in the areas of MS and clinical neurology and is member of the Serono Symposia International Foundation Scientific Committee.