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Published 30 August 2024 Muscular Dystrophy UK have allocated funding to Professor Rita Horvath and her team to test if a dietary supplement could be used as a new treatment for people with mitochondrial myopathies. The research will assess if supplementing the diets of people with mt-aaRS with higher doses of specific amino acids will […]

Patrick Chinnery elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Professor Patrick Chinnery, Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge, has been appointed as the new Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council (MRC). The Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan, has appointed Professor Patrick Chinnery as the next Executive Chair of the MRC. Michelle Donelan said: […]

Professor Patrick Chinnery took part in the Naked Scientists podcast (Episode: Nobel Prize Roundup, 7th October 2022) to discuss the mitochondrial genetic code. Click here for more information on the Naked Scientists website

Professor Patrick Yu Wai Man took part in an interview on International LHON Awareness Day (19th September 2022). Click here to listen and view to the interview.

Very interesting article from The Guardian (16th February 2022) focused on the possibility of whole genome sequencing ending the ‘diagnostic odyssey’. A direct quote from Professor Patrick Chinnery is included within this article. Read the article here: The Guardian newspaper