Miratul graduated in Medicine with Honours from the University of Edinburgh in 1997. He was awarded a prestigious Kennedy Scholarship to study Neurobiology at Harvard University undertaking Huntington’s disease research in Mel Feany’s laboratory in 2001. He obtained his PhD in 2007 from the UCL Institute of Neurology where he made a major contribution to the discovery of PINK1 kinase mutations in Parkinson’s disease under the supervision of Nicholas Wood FMedSci and David Latchman. In parallel he received clinical training at leading London teaching hospitals including the Hammersmith Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen Square. He specialized in Movement Disorders training under Andrew Lees FMedSci and Kailash Bhatia.

Miratul joined the MRC PPU as a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow (Sponsor: Dario Alessi FRS) in 2008 to investigate how PINK1 mutations lead to neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s. He has been a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow since 2013 and an Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) Co-Investigator since 2020. He is presently Professor of Experimental Neurology and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Ninewells Hospital. Miratul has received multiple awards for his research including the Queen Square Prize in Neurology (2006), Goulstonian Lecture of the Royal College of Physicians (2018) and Francis Crick Lecture of the Royal Society (2018). He became a member of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme in 2017 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2020, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2023.