Manju Kurian

Professor Manju Kurian is a Professor of Neurogenetics at UCL-Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. She is also a Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

After graduating from Cambridge University, she trained in Paediatrics before subspecialising in Paediatric Neurology. At the end of her clinical training, she undertook a PhD (University of Birmingham) investigating the molecular genetic basis of childhood neurological disorders (2007-2011).  She moved to UCL after her PhD, and is now an independent Principal Investigator at the Institute of Child Health.

She has been awarded a Wellcome Intermediate Fellowship (2012-2017), L’Oreal For Women in Science Award (2017), NIHR Professorship (2017-2022), ICNA Jon Stobo Award (2018) and the The Jules Thorn Award for Biomedical Research (2019-2025). Her grant income exceeds £10 million and she has >200 peer reviewed publications including works in Nature Genetics, Science, Science Translational Medicine and Lancet Neurology.