JC Corvol is Professor of Neurology at Sorbonne University, Head of the Department of Neurology at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, research team leader at the Paris Brain Institute, and co-chair of the French clinical research network for Parkinson's disease (NS-PARK). His research focuses on molecular pathophysiology and pharmacology of Parkinson's disease. He is President-elect of the European Section of the Movement Disoders Society.