Philippa Mills, PhD

Prof. Philippa Mills earned her PhD in Biochemistry from Cardiff University in 1995. She then joined UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London as a Post-Doctoral fellow in the Mass Spectrometry Unit, focusing on inherited metabolic diseases. In 2006, she received the Horst-Bickel prize for her pioneering research on inborn errors of vitamin B6 metabolism. In 2010, she was awarded an NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Fellowship shortly before being appointed as a Lecturer in Metabolic Paediatrics at UCL, later being promoted to Associate Professor in 2017 and Professor in 2021. Prof. Mills’ research aims to improve the diagnosis and treatment of inherited metabolic disorders, particularly those that cause neurological disease. Her work focuses on understanding the origins of these diseases, developing new therapies, and creating rapid translational diagnostic tests for more efficient diagnosis and treatment monitoring, with an emphasis on disorders related to vitamin B6 metabolism.