Chinnery, Professor Patrick F

Patrick Chinnery qualified in Medicine in 1992 and became a Wellcome Trust Training Fellow in 1995 studying the molecular basis of human mitochondrial disease. In 1998 he began post-doctoral research as a Wellcome Trust Advanced Clinical Research Fellow exploring the relationship between mitochondrial genotype and the clinical features of mitochondrial disease and the mechanisms of mitochondrial inheritance. A Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow since 2003, he continues to study the inheritance and expression of mitochondrial disorders both in the clinic and in the molecular laboratory, running several clinical trials in rare genetic diseases. He was appointed Professor of Neurogenetics in 2004 and has been studying mitochondrial mechanisms in late-onset multi-factorial diseases including stroke and Parkinson's disease. he became a Fellow in the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2009, an NIHR Senior Investigator in 2010, and was recently appointed Director of Newcastle University's Institute of Human Genetics.