Svend Peter Klinken (born 30 July 1953 in Singapore) is an Australian medical researcher and academic.

After being awarded his PhD, he received a fellowship from the Fogarty International Center at the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland (1984–1986).

He then returned to Australia and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne 1987–1988.

[9] Under his stewardship, the Institute attracted world-class researchers to Western Australia and made numerous acclaimed medical discoveries.

[citation needed] Klinken was Regional Editor of the International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology (1994–2004) and was a member of the Editorial Board of Experimental Haematology (2000–2004).

He was invited to be an inaugural member of the International Molecular Biology Network, and has participated in numerous institutional reviews.