Dr Kerri Kinghorn

Dr Kerri Kinghorn completed the MB/PhD programme at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a 1st class BA degree in Neuroscience in 2000 and a distinction in her medical degree in 2005. She gained her PhD in 2006 at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research under the supervision of Professor David Lomas. While completing her higher clinical training in Neurology in London, she was awarded a Wellcome Trust Post-Doctoral Clinician Scientist Fellowship. This was performed in the research groups of Professor Sir John Hardy and Professor Dame Linda Partridge at University College London (UCL). As part of her neurology training, she spent one year in Melbourne Australia as an Association of British Neurologists Australasian Fellow. Dr Kinghorn then took up a post as an Academic Clinical Lecturer in Neurology at Kings College London and completed her neurology training in 2017.

Dr Kinghorn returned to UCL in 2017 as a Rosetrees UCL Excellence Fellow. In December 2018 she was awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship. Dr Kinghorn is also an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.