Dr William Macken

Dr Macken is an Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics and Genomic Medicine working at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square and a Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. He has a special interest in mitochondrial disease. He undertakes general genetics clinics in GOSH and specialised mitochondrial disease clinics at NHNN as well as transition clinics for young adult with mitochondrial disease..

Will studied medicine in University College Dublin and trained in paediatrics in Dublin and London before specialising in clinical genetics in Wessex (Southampton) and London (GOSH) deaneries. He holds an MSc in Genomic Medicine (2020, Imperial College, Distinction) and PhD in Genomic Medicine in Mitochondrial Disorders (UCL, 2022). During his PhD he also worked as part of the MRC International Centre for Genomic Medicine in Neuromuscular Disease researching the causes of neuromuscular conditions in Lower and Middle Income Countries. Will has lectured on a number of master's programmes (Paediatrics/Child Health, Neuromuscular diseases and Fetal Medicine). 

His current research focuses on the translation of emerging technologies into diagnostics especially for undiagnosed patients thought to have mitochondrial disease. He is widely published in prominent genetics and neurology journals. He is grateful to receive generous research supported from The Lily Foundation and Muscular Dystrophy UK.