Emily de los Reyes International Congress on Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses 2025

Emily de los Reyes

BIO – Emily C. de los Reyes, MD Emily C. de los Reyes, MD is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. She is a pediatric neurodevelopmental specialist at Nationwide Children’s hospital, serves as director for Batten’s disease center of excellence, co-director of Rett center of excellence and is the lead neurodevelopmental specialist of the Neurodevelopmental clinic, Prader-Willi and Rett syndrome center of excellence. She is also the neurology subspecialty chair of the Autism Treatment Network at Nationwide Children’s hospital. Dr. de los Reyes is the primary investigator for the Batten’s disease research programs, which includes the intraventricular enzyme replacement therapy for CLN2 Batten’s disease. She has also developed the IND enabling CLN3, CLN6, SLC6A1 gene therapy clinical trials and the intravitreal enzyme replacement for the eye in CLN2 disease. She is also the lead investigator for the natural history studies for Batten’s disease. Her research focuses on the natural history and development of therapeutic approaches for rare and neurodegenerative diseases that affect the central nervous system (CNS), particularly Batten’s disease. Other research interests include autism, La Crosse encephalitis and other rare mitochondrial and genetic disorders.