Alain Ndayisaba conducted his medical training at the Medical University Innsbruck, Austria with a scientific focus on MSA under the mentorship of Prof. Gregor K. Wenning and Prof. Nadia Stefanova, leaders in the MSA field. In addition, Dr. Ndayisaba has been actively engaged in fostering public awareness for MSA as member of the Bishop Dr. Karl Golser Foundation, an international partner of the MSA Coalition. Since 2019, he has been conducting his research in the lab of MSA Coalition Board Member Prof. Vikram Khurana at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, co-mentored by Prof. Wenning and Prof. Stefanova, where his goal is to create a human disease model for MSA in the dish allowing us to understand key pathological events in MSA.