Amar graduated from Leicester University Medical School in 1989 and came to King’s in 1994 as a clinician scientist working with Professor Nigel Leigh, studying genetic risk factors in motor neuron disease.

He was awarded an MRC Clinical Training Fellowship in 1995, through which he obtained his PhD in 1999, winning a prestigious international award (The Charcot Young Investigator Prize) for outstanding research in the field of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

In 2000 he was awarded an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship becoming Professor of Neurology and Complex Disease Genetics in 2008.