René I.F. de Coo, MD, PhD is Senior Consultant in Adult and Child Neurology and head of the NeMo-expertisecenter at the Sophia Kinderziekenhuis,  Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

His main areas of research are: 

• Mitochondrial disease and neuromuscular and metabolic disorders
• Development of innovative gene- and cell-therapy treatment methods for mitochondrial disease
• Crigler Najjar