Robert Pignolo

Dr. Robert Pignolo, MD, PhD is the Robert and Arlene Kogod Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. He has worked on basic science, translational, and clinical aspects of FOP for over two decades, first at the University of Pennsylvania in Center for Research on FOP & Related Disorders in Philadelphia, and now at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Major research areas include the natural history of FOP, drug discovery, mechanisms of lesion formation and repurposing of drugs for the treatment of FOP. He is currently the principal investigator of multiple FOP interventional trials at the Mayo Clinic.