Derek Kinchington BSc, PhD, FRCPath

LONDON

Dr. Kinchington started his career as a science teacher in London where he was a Head of Science for seven years. He studied for his first degree in Biological Sciences and Chemistry at Birkbeck College, London. In 1981 he gained a PhD at King’s College London, having been awarded a Science Research Council grant. His PhD research focused on the cell biology involved in the skeleton formation of scleratinian corals.

In 1981 he transferred disciplines learning the new techniques of molecular biology; studying poxviruses at the Public Health Laboratory, Porton Down; and then cancer-inducing viruses at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer UK). From 1986 to 2000, initially at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School and then at Barts’ Hospital Medical School he studied HIV and was one of the team that in 1995 introduced the first of the new drugs active against HIV infections. From 2001 Derek worked on the editorial team of several scientific journals. In 2014 he was made a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists on the basis of his published works.

Dr. Kinchington is also our Scientific Correspondent.