Dr Julien Baruteau is a MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow at University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, and Consultant in Metabolic Medicine at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London. His research focuses on studying the pathophysiology and developing novel therapies for inherited metabolic diseases. He is developing gene therapy using both viral and non-viral vectors and has expertise in translating academic and industry-led programmes of gene therapies into first-in-human clinical trials.