Patrick Francis Chinnery is a neurologist, clinician scientist, and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow based in the Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit and the University of Cambridge, where he is professor of neurology and head of the department of clinical neurosciences.
15 Facts About Patrick Chinnery
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Patrick Chinnery is co-chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Research BioResource for Translational Research in Chronic and Rare Diseases.
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Patrick Chinnery went on to complete his PhD in mitochondrial genetics in 2000 whilst training in clinical neurology and neurogenetics.
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Patrick Chinnery trained as a physician and neurologist in the north east of England, becoming a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1995, and completing his specialist clinical training in neurology 2002 when he was appointed Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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Patrick Chinnery specializes in inherited disorders of the nervous system and established the north of England regional neurogenetics service between 2002 and 2015.
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Patrick Chinnery became a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College in 2017 where he is Director of Studies in Clinical Medicine.
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Patrick Chinnery's research focuses on understanding the role of mitochondria in human disease.
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Patrick Chinnery has identified the genetic basis of several new diseases caused by genetic mutations affecting the genetic code within mitochondria and the nuclear genome which code for mitochondrial proteins.
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Patrick Chinnery's group showed that most healthy people carry heteroplasmic mtDNA mutations, but at very low levels.
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Patrick Chinnery showed that genetic variation of mtDNA influences the risk of developing common diseases and many human physiological traits, including kidney and liver function.
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Patrick Chinnery has been supported by Wellcome Trust research fellowships since 1995, most recently as a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow.
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Patrick Chinnery was Director of the National Institute for Health Research Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre from 2008 to 2015, leading a doubling of funding.
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Patrick Chinnery has advised to two UK Government Chief Medical Advisors, and ministers and Secretaries of State within the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy.
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Patrick Chinnery was awarded several prizes as a training neurologist and researcher, twice being awarded the Charles Symonds Prize by the Association of British Neurologists.
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Patrick Chinnery was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024.