Professor Patrick Chinnery FRCP FMedSci - Non Executive Director
Patrick is Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge and A
Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow. Patrick began his research career studying links between
mitochondrial DNA and human disease, and is interested in mechanisms of mitochondrial
inheritance. His research has involved identifying nuclear and mitochondrial gene defects causing
mitochondrial disorders, dissecting downstream disease mechanisms and studying molecular and
cellular bases of mitochondrial DNA inheritance – most recently through the UK 100,000 Genomes
Project.
His active clinical translational research studies the natural history of mitochondrial diseases
linked to development of new treatments. Prof. Chinnery has an interest in mitochondrial
mechanisms in common diseases, particularly neurodegenerative disorders.