Paul Gissen is a Clinical Professor of Paediatric Metabolic Medicine at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Honorary Consultant Paediatric Metabolic Diseases at GOSH and a NIHR Senior Investigator.
He is the Director Designate of the National Institute for Health and Care Research GOSH Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR GOSH BRC) and leads the Gene, Stem and Cellular Therapies. He is also the UK Chief Investigator for a number of industry and academic sponsored clinical trials of novel therapies.
Professor Gissen obtained his medical degree from the University of Glasgow and trained in paediatrics at Manchester, Sheffield and Birmingham Children’s Hospitals specialising in inherited metabolic disorders. He undertook his PhD at Birmingham University where he identified genetic causes of several rare paediatric diseases.
His research interests are in developing novel gene-based therapies for Rare Paediatric Metabolic Disorders.