Prof. Paul Gissen UCL Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, UK

Paul Gissen has been a Clinical Professor in Paediatric Metabolic Medicine at the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health since 2013 and is an Honorary Consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Having obtained his medical degree from the University of Glasgow in 1995, Paul completed his Paediatrics training... read moreat Manchester, Sheffield and Birmingham Children’s hospitals specialising in inherited metabolic disorders. During his PhD at Birmingham University Paul identified genetic causes of several rare paediatric diseases and became interested in developing therapies for intracellular trafficking disorders such as Arthrogryposis, Renal Dysfunction and Cholestasis syndrome, Niemann Pick type C disease and Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis. He leads Gene and Stem Cell Therapies Theme at the GOSH and GOS ICH Biomedical Research Centre.