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Executive Summary：
Dr. Yo-Tsen Liu is the Head of Division of Epilepsy, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan. She is also the current President of Taiwan Society of Neurological Rare Diseases. She earned her MD at National Taiwan University, Taiwan and then completed her neurological residency training and became a neurology consultant at Taipei Veterans General Hospital (TVGH), Taiwan. After winning the “Studying Abroad Scholarship” supported by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education, she studied for her PhD at Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London, UK.

Her research interests are genetics and pathogenesis of a range of neurogenetic diseases, with particular focus on epilepsy, paroxysmal movement disorders, neurodevelopmental diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases. She is dictated in comprehensive genomic studies, including next-generation sequencing (NGS) and third-generation sequencing, to delineate the genomic landscapes of certain neurological rare diseases in Taiwan, for example, paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia, developmental epilepsy encephalopathy, TTR amyloidosis, and Fabry disease. Multiomic studies and deep phenotyping to investigate the pathogenesis of the above diseases are also in the scope with the attempt to develop novel therapeutic targets.