Professor Patrick Chinnery is the Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council (MRC) where he plays a key role in developing, promoting and implementing MRC research programmes, working with national and international partners. He aims to help deliver the translation of the world’s most exciting research into human biology and disease rapidly into improved healthcare. As a practising clinician, he is well placed to do so. His clinical expertise is in neurology. He worked in Newcastle for many years, latterly as Director of the Institute of Genetic Medicine. In 2015, he moved to Cambridge, where he is a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, Professor of Neurology and Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences. His laboratory research group is based in the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit and studies the role of mitochondrial DNA in rare and common diseases. His linked clinical research programme is developing new treatments for mitochondrial disorders.
