Patrick Chinnery

Patrick F. Chinnery
Born11 February 1968
Leeds, England
EducationSt Michaels College, Leeds, St Marys RC Comprehensive, Guiseley
Alma materNewcastle University, Cambridge University
AwardsFoulkes Foundation Medal, 2011,

NIHR Senior Investigator, 2010,

Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2009,

Association of British Neurologists, Charles Symonds Prize, 1997 & 2002

Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, Galen Medal, 2022
Websitewww.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/chinnery-group

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 also professor of neurology and head of the department of clinical neurosciences.

In 2023 he was appointed executive chair of the Medical Research Council (United Kingdom). He is co-chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Research BioResource for Translational Research in Chronic and Rare Diseases.