Ming Lim

Professor, Evelina London Hospital

Ming Lim undertook his undergraduate medical training at the University Nottingham, UK. Following completing his paediatric neurology training in South London, he began his doctoral research in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (London) with the award of a Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Research Training Fellowship. He was appointed as Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital; and is Professor in Paediatric Neurology within the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King’s College London. He is Head of the Children’s Neuroscience Department; Research Lead for Evelina London Hospital; and Associate Director of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust Clinical Research Facility.

The Children's Neuroscience Department Brain and Spine Inflammation Service at the Evelina, which he developed, is a multidisciplinary clinical service with a successful research portfolio; leading and participating in multi-centre/multi-national investigator-led studies; contributing to industry-led studies; and collaborating in basic studies investigating the role of inflammation in neurodegeneration and immunobiology of antibody-mediated central nervous system disorders.

His work has contributed to important characterisation and understanding of many childhood inflammatory disorders and his team is credited in leading clinical and research programs which now seek to optimise the management of severe childhood neuroinflammatory disorders. The service infrastructure and collaborative national and international networks also provide crucial clinical and research training in paediatric neuroinflammation.