Pediatrics & Therapeutics
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Kevin Mills

Biography

Dr. Kevin is a senior lecturer at UCL and an honorary clinical scientist at Great Ormond Street Hospital where he works very closely with the inborn errors of metabolism unit (Professor Paul Gissen, Dr Stephanie Grunewald, Professor Peter Clayton, Dr Philippa Mills), Dermatology (Professor John Harper / Dr Victoria Kinsler), Professors Simon Heales (Chemical pathology) and Neil Sebire (histopathology department). However, he also works very closely on large biomarker projects in neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases with Professors Nic Fox/John Hardy (Institute of Neurology) and Professor Perry Elliott (The Heart Hospital).

Research Interest

Dr. Kevin’s main interest is understanding the disease mechanisms underlying rare inborn errors of metabolism. His group’s focus is on patient-driven, translational research which aims to establish rapid, sensitive methods to study, diagnose and monitor the treatment of patients from GOSH and the National Hospital for Neurology. His laboratory is unique in that it can develop any diagnostic marker found in the ‘omic’ wings of the facility into rapid, multiplexed, diagnostic medical tests in the targeted mass spectrometry section. His group was responsible for the development of a new, quicker and gold standard test for the diagnosis of Fabry disease. This assay is used today both nationally and internationally for screening millions of patients for Fabry disease.

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